{"id":10200,"date":"2022-01-23T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2022-01-23T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:41:42","slug":"lowestoft-pearlware-jug-c-1780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=10200","title":{"rendered":"Lowestoft pearlware jug, c.1780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this diminutive\u00a0pear-shaped sparrow beak cream jug in an antiques shop in Dublin, Ireland in 2015. It is decorated with the Pagoda and Trees pattern, hand rendered in cobalt blue underglaze. A delicate lattice border embellishes the inside rim. Made in England by the Lowestoft factory around 1775-1785, the jug stands 3 inches high and has an incised number 4 on the underside.<\/p>\n<p>After the original handle broke off over 200 years ago, a tinker made a metal replacement supported with horizontal and vertical straps, much like an iron girdle. Although the small but mighty jug is in poor condition, I felt compelled to rescue it and bring it back to America, where it now lives among friends with similar battle scars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9120-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9120-1.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9120-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9120-1-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9126.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9126.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9126-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9126-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9124.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16577\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9124.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9124-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9124-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9132.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9132.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9132-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9132-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9122.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16578\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9122.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9122-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9122-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9131.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9131.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9131-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9131-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This jug with similar form and decoration shows what the original handle on mine might have looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1abf750d08e1c11545b8d2fb32a1e664_d-1.jpg\" alt=\"1abf750d08e1c11545b8d2fb32a1e664_d-1\" class=\"wp-image-10198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1abf750d08e1c11545b8d2fb32a1e664_d-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1abf750d08e1c11545b8d2fb32a1e664_d-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1abf750d08e1c11545b8d2fb32a1e664_d-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo courtesy of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishporcelainonline.com\">English Porcelain Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this diminutive\u00a0pear-shaped sparrow beak cream jug in an antiques shop in Dublin, Ireland in 2015. It is decorated with the Pagoda and Trees pattern, hand rendered in cobalt blue underglaze. A delicate lattice border embellishes the inside rim. Made in England by the Lowestoft factory around 1775-1785, the jug stands 3 inches high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,19,40,89,16],"class_list":["post-10200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-blue-white","tag-english","tag-metal-handle","tag-pearlware","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16586,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}