{"id":1906,"date":"2016-07-10T09:32:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2016-07-16T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:27:42","slug":"chinese-coffee-can-c-1750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"Chinese coffee can, c.1750"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cylindrical form porcelain coffee can (or coffee cup, outside of the UK) is decorated with cobalt blue underglaze decoration and has brown glaze along\u00a0the rim.\u00a0It was made in China during the Qianlong period (1711-1799) for export most likely to North America and Europe. It\u00a0measures 2.5 inches tall.<\/p>\n<p>Well over one hundred years ago, this small cup\u00a0slipped from someone&#8217;s\u00a0grasp, resulting in its handle snapping off. Rather than being tossed out, the precious cup was taken to a &#8220;china mender&#8221; who fashioned a sturdy iron replacement handle wrapped in rattan. The woven rattan acts as an insulant from the hot contents and allows for a tighter grip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1785.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1907\" title=\"IMG_1785\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1785.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1785-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7188.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5389\" title=\"IMG_7188\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7188.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7188-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1786.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1908\" title=\"IMG_1786\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1786.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1786-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5390\" title=\"IMG_7192\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7192.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7192-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This coffee can with the same\u00a0form and similar decoration shows what the original handle on mine might\u00a0have looked like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11017\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11017\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/il_570xN.882443330_f0br.jpg\" alt=\"il_570xN.882443330_f0br\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/il_570xN.882443330_f0br.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/il_570xN.882443330_f0br-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\">Etsy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cylindrical form porcelain coffee can (or coffee cup, outside of the UK) is decorated with cobalt blue underglaze decoration and has brown glaze along\u00a0the rim.\u00a0It was made in China during the Qianlong period (1711-1799) for export most likely to North America and Europe. It\u00a0measures 2.5 inches tall. Well over one hundred years ago, this [&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":[15,7,40,93],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-metal-handle","tag-rattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","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=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11131,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}