IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42608 accession number: C.83-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain Fable Candlestick, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, orange-red, purple, and black enamels and gilt. The underside is glazed, and has a small circular ventilation hole in the centre. The high base is supported on two scroll feet at the sides, and one at centre back, above which there is a loop handle with a flower on top, attached to a tall tree trunk with a candle nozzle at the top. On either side of the trunk there are many small white May flowers, and, here and there, larger blue and white, puce, white and yellow, or orange and yellow flowers of different varieties. The cock, with red, yellow, and purple plumage, stands in the centre with on the ground at his feet, a gold necklace and a pendant or brooch. On his left there is a white hen with areas of red feathers with one chick on its back and sheltering below it. On the right there is a pale brown hen with a larger white chick. On the base around them are applied flowers and leaves. The front of the base is inscribed in gold 'THE COCK & THE JE (rest illegible), and the scrolls are picked out in gold. At the top of the tree trunk there is a candle socket with a drip pan formed by six pointed green leaves, and a nozzle in the shape of a flower with a calyx of leaves, and a blue edge with an inner row of black spots. object type: Soft-paste porcelain Fable Candlestick, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, orange-red, purple, and black enamels and gilt title: candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42608 SUBJECTS ------------------- jewel cock hen chick tree trunk flowers jewel cock hen chick tree trunk flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, orange-red, purple, and black enamels and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1769 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1769 creation date latest: 1770 culture: Gold anchor period (1759-69) culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.8 CITATIONS -------- Aesop's Fables Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Property from the Estate of Laurance S. 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