A Chelsea 'Hen and Chickens' tureen, cover and stand Circa 1755-56, brown anchor mark to interior of cover, red anchor mark to stand Naturalistically modelled as a large nesting speckled mother hen with pale-brown, dark-brown, puce, orange and yellow wing and tail feathers, red cheeks, comb and wattle and pale-puce beak; six of her yellow, pale-puce and brown chicks peeking out from beneath her breast feathers and wings, a further chick on her back forming the finial to the cover, the interior of the tureen with two green leaves, the stand modelled as two bright-yellow sunflowers and brightly-coloured flowers and leaves (the chick finial fixed to the cover with a metal repair, the tureen base with extended firing cracks, the stand with repaired section to one edge) The stand 19 1/8 in. (48.5 cm.) wide, the tureen 14 in. (35.5 cm.) wide
A Chelsea 'Hen and Chickens' tureen, cover and stand Circa 1755-56, brown anchor mark to interior of cover, red anchor mark to stand Naturalistically modelled as a large nesting speckled mother hen with pale-brown, dark-brown, puce, orange and yellow wing and tail feathers, red cheeks, comb and wattle and pale-puce beak; six of her yellow, pale-puce and brown chicks peeking out from beneath her breast feathers and wings, a further chick on her back forming the finial to the cover, the interior of the tureen with two green leaves, the stand modelled as two bright-yellow sunflowers and brightly-coloured flowers and leaves (the chick finial fixed to the cover with a metal repair, the tureen base with extended firing cracks, the stand with repaired section to one edge) The stand 19 1/8 in. (48.5 cm.) wide, the tureen 14 in. (35.5 cm.) wide
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