Plate from the dessert service: Service des arts Industriels

Sèvres created a richly decorated and highly unusual dessert service, entitled Service des arts industriels (Service of Industrial Arts), illustrating various manufacturing techniques and crafts. Develly painted these scenes from his own compositions, rather than following the usual factory practice of using prints as source material. This plate depicts the elegant Parisian shop of Bapst Ménière, jewelers to the crown.