{"id":1733,"date":"2010-04-26T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2010-12-25T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T20:22:58","slug":"chinese-clobbered-teapot-c-1780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1733","title":{"rendered":"Chinese clobbered teapot, c.1780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of clobbered (over-decorated) porcelains and this piece does not disappoint. A Chinese export porcelain teapot, measuring 5-1\/4&#8243; high, originally with blue underglaze Nanking decoration fell out of fashion shortly after it was made. In order to keep up with the sudden demand for polychrome Chinese ceramics, factories took the unwanted pieces with blue decoration and overpainted with brightly colored enamels, often without regard for the original design<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1734\" title=\"IMG_1952\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1952.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1952-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if that wasn&#8217;t enough, when the handle broke off it was repaired using metal staples and wrapped with lead. The result is less than attractive but the sturdy repair makes the teapot once again serviceable<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1735\" title=\"IMG_1954\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1954.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1954.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1954-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This teapot escaped the hand of a painter with polychrome enamels and retains its original blue decoration<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/equinox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1736\" title=\"equinox\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/equinox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/equinox.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/equinox-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxantiques.com\">Equinox Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of clobbered (over-decorated) porcelains and this piece does not disappoint. A Chinese export porcelain teapot, measuring 5-1\/4&#8243; high, originally with blue underglaze Nanking decoration fell out of fashion shortly after it was made. In order to keep up with the sudden demand for polychrome Chinese ceramics, factories took the unwanted [&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":[15,7,6,120],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-clobbered","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","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=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}