{"id":1623,"date":"2010-04-19T14:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2013-09-08T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T22:08:08","slug":"pair-liverpool-birds-cups-c-1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Liverpool Birds&#8221; tea cups, c.1775"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This pair of lightweight creamware tea cups, each measuring 2-5\/8&#8243; tall,\u00a0has orange transfer decoration with the &#8220;Liverpool Birds&#8221; pattern<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1839_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1627\" title=\"IMG_1839_2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1839_2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1839_2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1839_2-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These were most likely made in Wedgwood, England<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1624\" title=\"IMG_3401\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3401.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3401.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3401-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the handle of the cup on the right broke in three places, metal cleats were attached on either side of the cracks and painted to mask the repair<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1625\" title=\"IMG_3402\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3402.jpg\" width=\"365\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3402.jpg 365w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3402-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cup on the left has metal staples holding the cracks stable and were also painted to match the body of the cup<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1626\" title=\"IMG_3406\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3406.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3406.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3406-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pair of lightweight creamware tea cups, each measuring 2-5\/8&#8243; tall,\u00a0has orange transfer decoration with the &#8220;Liverpool Birds&#8221; pattern These were most likely made in Wedgwood, England When the handle of the cup on the right broke in three places, metal cleats were attached on either side of the cracks and painted to mask the [&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":[137,19,120,78],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","tag-creamware","tag-english","tag-staplesrivets","tag-wedgwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","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=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}