Cleveland Museum of Art
Stand for a Hen and Chicks Tureen
Chelsea Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-4c2e63215576
- Date
- c. 1755
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- England, London, Chelsea
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 161652
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The ceramic factory at Chelsea, located along the river Thames in western London, was Britain’s most renowned factory of decorative porcelain in the mid-1700s. Large tureens in the form of chickens or rabbits appealed to wealthy aristocrats, who took great care in developing specimen animal and poultry breeds on their country estates. The design for this particular tureen was taken from a popular seventeenth-century print by Francis Barlow depicting a farmyard. See cover record for Hen and Chicks Covered Tureen (1984.58).
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- 2000-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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18th Century Decorative TureensAll objects are ceramic tureens or tureen components from the 18th-19th centuries, representing European porcelain and faience tableware including both naturalistic forms (cauliflower, turtle, hen) and traditional servin
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