{"id":1638,"date":"2010-04-25T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2016-03-20T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T23:56:31","slug":"silver-resist-lustre-jug-c-1820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Silver resist lustre jug, c.1820"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This soft paste pottery &#8220;Dutch&#8221; shape jug is decorated in a stylized grape leaf pattern using a silver resist method of decoration. This type of decoration is achieved by painting the design with a resist substance such as thinned honey, applying the silver glaze over the entire jug, washing off the resist to reveal the unglazed decoration and firing to set the silver lustre background<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2080.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1640\" title=\"IMG_2080\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2080.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2080.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2080-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silver lustre, or &#8220;poor man&#8217;s silver&#8221; was first introduced in the 18th century by John Hancock for Spode. It remained popular throughout the 19th century, until the invention of electro plating brought silver plated items in to the masses in 1838. This jug\u00a0measures 4-3\/4&#8243; tall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2084.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1641\" title=\"IMG_2084\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2084.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2084.jpg 338w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2084-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tin was used to fashion a replacement handle and strap, most likely by an itinerant tinsmith or china mender<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1642\" title=\"IMG_2082\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another silver resist lustre jug shown with its original handle with the same silhouette as the replacement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2908m1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1666\" title=\"2908m1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2908m1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2908m1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2908m1-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquepottery.co.uk\">John Howard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This soft paste pottery &#8220;Dutch&#8221; shape jug is decorated in a stylized grape leaf pattern using a silver resist method of decoration. This type of decoration is achieved by painting the design with a resist substance such as thinned honey, applying the silver glaze over the entire jug, washing off the resist to reveal 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":[4],"tags":[19,5,40,100,107],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-english","tag-lustre","tag-metal-handle","tag-pottery","tag-soft-paste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10712,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/10712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}