{"id":193,"date":"2010-03-12T16:46:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:17:48","slug":"chinese-imari-tankard-c-1760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Imari mug with zinc liner, c.1700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large Imari style porcelain mug made in China during the Kangxi period (1662-1722).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3421\" title=\"IMG_2062\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20621.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20621-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decorated with peonies and chrysanthemums in blue, iron red and gilt underglaze enamel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2063.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3422\" title=\"IMG_2063\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2063.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2063.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2063-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A carved wood handle, possibly reused from a damaged mid-19th century pewter teapot, replaces the original porcelain handle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3423\" title=\"IMG_2064\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20641.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20641-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The zinc liner was added in the 1900&#8217;s, after the mug could no longer hold liquids. It\u00a0now makes a perfect vase which I frequently use. Mug measures 6-1\/4&#8243; high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3424\" title=\"IMG_2065\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20651.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20651-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This mug, with the same form and similar decoration, shows what the original porcelain handle would have looked like on my mug.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kx7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3415\" title=\"kx7\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kx7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kx7.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kx7-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotheborg.com\">Gotheborg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large Imari style porcelain mug made in China during the Kangxi period (1662-1722). Decorated with peonies and chrysanthemums in blue, iron red and gilt underglaze enamel. A carved wood handle, possibly reused from a damaged mid-19th century pewter teapot, replaces the original porcelain handle. The zinc liner was added in the 1900&#8217;s, after 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":[122],"tags":[7,29,16,68],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mugtankard","tag-chinese","tag-imari","tag-porcelain","tag-wood-handle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}