Casgliadau Arlein

Plate (assiette platte) from the service 'des arts industriels', white hard-paste porcelain, on a shallow foot rim, blue ground, the centre painted in polychrome enamels with a top-lit lithographic workshop depicting from the left a man pressing finished lithographs in a screw press, a man sieving sand over a stone, an older man dressed in a green apron, purple trousers, and a red waistcoat over shirtsleeves handling three stones on a work table against which leans two stones one dated 1828 and the other bearing a script B, a boy in a blue smock preparing ink on a brazier, a man pouring liquid over a stone on a sloping surface with the excess running off into a trough, and (on the right hand wall) a large map prominently inscribed 'Baviere', two stones below, one inscribed 'CD'; in the background a door hung with a purple curtain leads to an inner room where a seated artist in a smock and red cap draws on a stone, window behind and a picture on an easel to one side; dull gilt label panel within four concentric gilt lines, the border decorated with a gilt diaper-pattern enclosing quatrefoils between two concentric bands of myrtle leaves and gilt rim line.