{"id":1593,"date":"2010-04-30T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2010-04-30T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:23:56","slug":"bone-china-cup-with-saucer-c-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Bone china cup with saucer, c.1850"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although found together, this Victorian bone china teacup has nothing at all to do with the Imari patterned saucer, as they were &#8220;married&#8221; sometime after the saucer went missing. The only mark on the teacup is &#8220;2\/1247&#8221;, hand painted in red on the bottom. The undamaged saucer is\u00a0marked &#8220;Pointons England&#8221; on the bottom and dates from 1891. I would have been thrilled had the saucer also been a recipient of an inventive repair!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1728.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1594\" title=\"IMG_1728\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1728.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1728.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1728-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do love the simple yet effective replaced handle on the cup, made from a bent iron rod<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1729.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1595\" title=\"IMG_1729\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1729.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1729-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ends of the iron rod protrude through carefully drilled holes on the inside of the cup<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3524.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1596\" title=\"IMG_3524\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3524.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3524-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teacup measures 2-1\/4&#8243; high, 3-5\/8&#8243; in diameter and the saucer measures 5-1\/2&#8243; in diameter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although found together, this Victorian bone china teacup has nothing at all to do with the Imari patterned saucer, as they were &#8220;married&#8221; sometime after the saucer went missing. The only mark on the teacup is &#8220;2\/1247&#8221;, hand painted in red on the bottom. The undamaged saucer is\u00a0marked &#8220;Pointons England&#8221; on the bottom and dates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[19,40,16],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","tag-english","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","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=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}