Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene at a masquerade party in a bar. Figure of a man dressed in a lion's costume, center forground, has his arms around a young woman dressed as Diana who he appears to be kissing. She wears a crescent crown and holds a bow. She tells him to "take his paws off of her." She has her right foot planted on a platform upon which is a table with two wine bottles and a stool, left middleground. Behind an arched opening, right background, there are two costumed figures who appear to be dancing.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849
- Company
- Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756
- Date
- 1824
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
- Medium
- Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, bordered in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 19.7 x 15.3 (7 3/4 x 6 in.)
- Type
- ceramics
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
