Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Pièces Montées (Tiered Cakes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper, Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene in a hallway at the top of stairs, at right. Two male figures are carrying up the stairs large tiered cakes; one in the form of a windmill, the other in the form of a planted jardiniere. A third cake in the form of a medieval chapel

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