Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Meringues (Meringues) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, border in pen and brown ink, Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Kitchen/pantry scene. Figure of a woman/man viewed from behind offers a meringue to a child seated at a table, right foreground. Two children, one of whom is seated on a step in the left middleground, the other stands to the right, are eating meringues and teasing each other. Another room, filled with figures, is visible through a door at the left, perhaps indicating a restaurant setting. A stairway to an upper floor is visible through a doorway at right of center., France, 1819-20, ceramics, Drawing, Drawing