IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131417 accession number: C.4.2 & A-1958 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain tureen and cover, moulded in the form of a fighting cock, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. title: tureen and cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: It is possible that the pair of tureens was sold on 30 March 1922, lot 91, as part of the 'Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Tapestries, Porcelain and Furniture' auctioned by Mr W. Rendall Darby, of the firm of Messrs. J & R Kemp and Co., 125 High Holborn, WC1. A pair of 14 1/2 in Old Chelsea tureens and covers in the form of fighting cocks, enamelled in colours (no price or purchaser given). If so, they may have come from the collection of the Duchess of Cleveland. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Dick Gelston in memory of his brother Robert Gelston, Civil Engineer, Limerick. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131417 TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded in the form of a fighting cock, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1756 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1756 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 9 dimension: Length units: in value: 15 CITATIONS -------- The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the Year 1958 European Porcelain of the 18th Century ---