Cover for a Hen and Chicks Tureen (c. 1755): Art, History and Details

Cover for a Hen and Chicks Tureen (c. 1755) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Chelsea Porcelain Factory (Britain, London, 1745–84).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Cover for a Hen and Chicks Tureen
• Date: c. 1755
• Creator attribution: Chelsea Porcelain Factory (Britain, London, 1745–84)
• Culture: England, London, Chelsea
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain
• Dimensions: Overall: 24.8 x 34.9 x 25.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1984.58.b

A detail from the museum

See cover record.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.

View the collection record

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