Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Sorbets (Sorbets) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
Design for a painted porcelain plate or serving vessel, rondel. Scene in mountains of Central Asia. A man, left center foreground, shovels ice into a bucket which is suspended from the back of a donkey held by a woman attendant. Another man in a crouching position, left foreground, gathers a tray of ice with his right hand. Two people lead a donkey down the mountain side, right middleground.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
1819-20
Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper
1989-13-27
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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