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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Soup Plate

This is a Drawing. It was probably Unknown. It is dated 1787–1800 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Its dimensions are

40.0 x 28.1 cm (15 3/4 x 11 1/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Watermark: J. HONIG & ZOONEN (Heawood 3345); Stamp: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration in brown, lower center verso: Lugt 457e

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: N .6 altro tondino più picolo con maggier concavità; in graphite, lower left corner verso, sideways: P.18

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Soup Plate; Probably Unknown (Italian); France; brush and watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper; 40.0 x 28.1 cm (15 3/4 x 11 1/16 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-2592

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