1592970563000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-131417 1747160515635 1725555732000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-131417 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131417 000424eb-5764-3197-afdd-7809cfbc2e57 6 reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain polychrome reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels Decoration in polychrome enamels reference term-120086 adlib-term-120086 cdecca31-5ec3-3fe3-9e5d-455d9771fda5 painting overglaze Applied Arts Soft-paste porcelain tureen and cover, moulded in the form of a fighting cock, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. 105 reference exhibition-1873 adlib-exhibition-1873 8610d16d-3c1b-3857-aef1-9a36618fa19f Chelsea China and Pottery Exhibition C.4.2 & A-1958 1 accession number C.4.2 & A-1958 131417 priref 131417 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131417 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131417 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by Dick Gelston in memory of his brother Robert Gelston, Civil Engineer, Limerick. reference agent-171104 adlib-agent-171104 5a025ee0-0c27-3082-801b-e3ea32e3b27a Gelston, Dick 1958 1958 1958-10-16 bequeathed 1755 1755 1755 circa 1755 1756 1 1756 1756 1756 factory reference agent-157802 adlib-agent-157802 e51ed5e2-3605-39a0-b953-487f1f622a3a Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory This rare tureen and its pair probably resembled lot 52 on the sixteenth and last day of the Chelsea sale held on 27 March 1756 which was described as 'A very curious TUREEN in the form of TWO FIGHTING COCKS big as the life.', but seems likely to have been two tureens, as no example of one tureen in the form of two fighting cocks has been recorded. There is one more example in the Art Institute of Chicago, European Decorative Arts Department, accession no. 1964.1142. reference term-106451 adlib-term-106451 9cdfd62c-ee07-3884-ae08-c797aad08631 18th Century, Mid reference term-107736 adlib-term-107736 e93a8dd1-d76d-320b-be9b-afa352e322a1 George II reference term-110762 adlib-term-110762 92b555c4-d666-3846-a471-77585013d6c6 Red anchor period (1752-1756) reference term-106998 adlib-term-106998 e3be6de7-1089-333e-a2e9-d7165b18816d literal England England country literal Middlesex Middlesex region Chelsea presumed lead reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain Height in 9 Length in 15 reference term-121353 adlib-term-121353 52b67dca-eb0e-339c-a804-85a40b300dd4 tureen and cover history note Possibly from the collection of the Duchess of Cleveland. 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). Robert Gelston, Limerick; his brother, Dick Gelston 1 pair reference object-131418 adlib-object-131418 afe23533-7407-385a-b8c3-261af1cabe8b

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tureen reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. p. 40, no. 105, illustrated pl. 21. The cataloguer noted that 'These form an authentic record of the trimming and artificial spurs adopted about the year 1755. They were then in the Gelston Collection, that is the collection of Robert Gelston, listed among the lenders to the exhibition on p. 13. 40 reference publication-2836 adlib-publication-2836 d731ab1b-3b9f-384d-92a1-ac4a8216a7a2 The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery Ref. Appendix, being a transcription of 'A Catalogue of the last Year's large and valuable Production of the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory . . . . .Which will be sold by Auction, by Mr Ford, At his Great Room in the Haymarket, On Monday the 10th of March and the Fifteen following Days, Sundays excepted' (1755) p. 128, no. 52. 128 reference publication-5747 adlib-publication-5747 e0786724-86ac-3991-b57a-62e3e7e66483 Chelsea Porcelain reference publication-5761 adlib-publication-5761 93f9ceac-b532-39d3-bcd6-e850d23466ee Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the Year 1958 Publ. p. 111, pl. 139. 111 reference publication-2763 adlib-publication-2763 b00b4b20-9281-3cc4-a9f5-21a2be192a4c European Porcelain of the 18th Century reference term-9010 adlib-term-9010 ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6 Rococo reference term-125761 adlib-term-125761 bce2de03-432e-3676-bb62-4a5042d2c1d3 dining animal reference term-147688 adlib-term-147688 e1e4f919-085f-3b96-844b-c0a5d2293a24 fighting cock literal fighting cock fighting cock

reference term-121353 adlib-term-121353 52b67dca-eb0e-339c-a804-85a40b300dd4 tureen and cover

tureen and cover soft-paste porcelain, moulded in the form of a fighting cock, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels reference term-111179 adlib-term-111179 be5c887b-c0ed-3d89-82b2-c3a870e72a68 moulding reference term-27616 adlib-term-27616 61e6a95d-84c8-3893-b6c8-213392262987 glazing (coating) object OBJECT