{"id":1333,"date":"2010-04-10T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:03:02","slug":"wooden-mortar-pestle-c-1850-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Wooden mortar &#038; pestle, c.1875"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large American primitive lathe-turned treenware\u00a0mortar (with original red painted surface)\u00a0&amp; pestle, together\u00a0measure 13&#8243; high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_33922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4965\" title=\"IMG_3392\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_33922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_33922.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_33922-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was not unusual for wooden utilitarian items such as bowls and mortars to crack, due to a change in climate. Two steel bands were added to help stabilize the large break.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3396.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1336\" title=\"IMG_3396\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3396.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3396-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The underside of the mortar shows concentric lathe rings, reminding me of a 45 rpm vinyl record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_34211.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1338\" title=\"IMG_3421\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_34211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_34211.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_34211-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large American primitive lathe-turned treenware\u00a0mortar (with original red painted surface)\u00a0&amp; pestle, together\u00a0measure 13&#8243; high. It was not unusual for wooden utilitarian items such as bowls and mortars to crack, due to a change in climate. Two steel bands were added to help stabilize the large break. The underside of the mortar shows concentric lathe rings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[62,147,61],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","tag-american","tag-metal-band","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","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=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11615,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}