{"id":15425,"date":"2022-02-13T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=15425"},"modified":"2022-02-13T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T14:54:44","slug":"james-giles-decorated-teapot-c-1760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=15425","title":{"rendered":"James Giles decorated teapot, c.1760"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This small white porcelain teapot has traveled the world since it was first produced in China in the mid-1700s. Soon after it was made, it travelled by cargo ship to London where it was decorated with flowers in polychrome enamels at the James Giles Workshop, circa 1755-1765. I purchased the teapot a few years ago from an antiques dealer in Virginia and now it resides in New York. It measures nearly 5.5 inches high, 7.5 inches from handle to spout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You all must know by now that the reason I purchased this lovely teapot is because of the make-do repair. After the original spout broke off, over 200 years ago, a jeweler attached an elegant silver replacement. Repairs such as this are not uncommon, and I image jewelers kept a stock of silver spouts ready for action for when the inevitable happened. <\/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\/IMG_2195.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2195.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2195-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2195-300x300.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_2196.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2196.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2196-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2196-300x300.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_2206.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2206.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2206-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2206-300x300.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_2208.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2208.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2208-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2208-300x300.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_2209.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2209.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2209-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2209-300x300.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_2213.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2213.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2213-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2213-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This teapot with similar form and decoration by James Giles suggests what the original spout on my teapot would have looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-9.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-9-300x242.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\">eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small white porcelain teapot has traveled the world since it was first produced in China in the mid-1700s. Soon after it was made, it travelled by cargo ship to London where it was decorated with flowers in polychrome enamels at the James Giles Workshop, circa 1755-1765. I purchased the teapot a few years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,251,124,16,17],"class_list":["post-15425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-chinese","tag-james-giles","tag-metal-spout","tag-porcelain","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425","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=15425"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16651,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425\/revisions\/16651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}