Plate from the dessert service: Service des arts Industriels
Sèvres Manufactory
(France)
Jean-Charles Develly
(French, 1783–1849)
about 1823–28
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration
DimensionsOverall: 3.2 x 24 cm (1 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.1908
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Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
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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.
Inscriptions"Joailler/Parures montees"ProvenanceStoner and Evans, New York (dealers); February 23, 1944, purchased by Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
