{"id":2009,"date":"2010-05-20T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2014-04-26T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T13:58:27","slug":"miniature-clobbered-teapot-c-1790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"Miniature “clobbered” teapot, c.1700"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tiny Chinese porcelain teapot made during the Kangxi period (1662-1722) combining three of my favorite things: inventive repair, miniatures and clobbering. It’s hard to tell what the original 1700’s underglaze decoration was, as the multi color & gilt overglaze decoration of dragons & flowers\u00a0extends over the entire surface.<\/p>\n

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Clobbered in the early 1800s to satisfy the demand for more colorful pottery of the times, this small teapot stands\u00a04-3\/4″ tall.<\/p>\n

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There is a hole connecting the spout to the body, as well as a tiny hole in the lid for steam to escape, confirming this to be a functioning miniature.<\/p>\n

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This piece has travelled much over the past 220 years, as it was originally made in China, exported to Europe, clobbered most likely in Holland, landed in Scotland with a collector and ended up with me in America!<\/p>\n

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The replaced metal handle has been painted to match the body. See an earlier post, “Globular Chinese export teapot, c.1750”, with a similarly painted handle.<\/p>\n

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Typical pseudo Oriental marks were painted on bottom at the time of the clobbering to add “authenticity”.<\/p>\n

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This miniature clobbered teapot of similar form shows what the original handle on my teapot might have looked like.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Grays<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tiny Chinese porcelain teapot made during the Kangxi period (1662-1722) combining three of my favorite things: inventive repair, miniatures and clobbering. It’s hard to tell what the original 1700’s underglaze decoration was, as the multi color & gilt overglaze decoration of dragons & flowers\u00a0extends over the entire surface. Clobbered in the early 1800s to […]<\/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":[7,6,40,13],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-chinese","tag-clobbered","tag-metal-handle","tag-miniature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","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=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}