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    "localId": "152003",
    "label": "Hen and Chicks Covered Tureen on Stand",
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    "id": "152003",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Hen and Chicks Covered Tureen on Stand",
    "description": "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.",
    "date": "c. 1755",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.58",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.58/1984.58_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 24.8 x 34.9 x 25.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, London, Chelsea"
    ],
    "accession": "1984.58"
}

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    "tec": "soft-paste porcelain",
    "tombstone": "Hen and Chicks Covered Tureen on Stand, c. 1755. Chelsea Porcelain Factory (Britain, London, 1745–84). Soft-paste porcelain; overall: 24.8 x 34.9 x 25.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1984.58",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 161652,
            "description": "Stand for a Hen and Chicks Tureen, c. 1755. Chelsea Porcelain Factory (Britain, London, 1745–84). Soft-paste porcelain; overall: 48.7 x 37.7 x 6.4 cm (19 3/16 x 14 13/16 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2000.3"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Though the form of a soup tureen suggests a functional role at the dining table, such large, expensive porcelains were probably only used for decoration because hot liquids might have easily caused them to crack.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 181; Mentioned: p. 201, no. 26",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bidwell, Frederick E. and Leslie Cade.<em> The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. New York: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 136",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=857403600"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Reimagining the British Galleries: Our curators preview the new look of the space.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 59, no. 6 (November/December 2019): 5-7.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 6; Mentioned: P. 6, 7."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.58",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:51:40.005000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.58/1984.58_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 152003,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "soft-paste porcelain",
    "creatorTags": [
        "gender unknown"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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