Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Lys (Lillies) from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service), Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Pen and brown, black ink, brush and wash, white gouache, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper, Scene in front of a church, possibly on Assumption Day (August). A procession of parishioners file out of the church, right background, led by acolytes holding banners with images of the Virgin. In the right middleground, a group of three female figures receive lily branches (a Virgin symbol) from a man, center

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