{"id":2474,"date":"2010-07-27T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2010-12-25T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T17:49:46","slug":"amoy-pattern-water-jug-c-1845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2474","title":{"rendered":"“Amoy” pattern water jug, c.1845"},"content":{"rendered":"

This large transferware water jug dates from the mid-1800’s and was made in England\u00a0by William Ridgway. It is decorated with the “Amoy” pattern, an exotic blue & white\u00a0Chinoiserie design. It had a matching basin and was part of a larger wash set that would have been found on top of a bedroom washstand<\/p>\n

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Jug measures 13″ tall<\/p>\n

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Chinoiserie (“Chinese-esque”)\u00a0decoration was quite popular in Europe since being introduced by the French in the 17th century. Playing with scale, it employs asymmetrical images of an imaginary\u00a0China, its popularity peaking by the middle of the 18th century<\/p>\n

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Marked in cobalt blue “AMOY W.R.” on the bottom<\/p>\n

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When the original handle snapped off, a large metal handle with thumb rest and finger grip was strapped on to make the jug functional<\/p>\n

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This blue & white transfer jug has a simple handle; most likely the same shape was on my jug<\/p>\n

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

This large transferware water jug dates from the mid-1800’s and was made in England\u00a0by William Ridgway. It is decorated with the “Amoy” pattern, an exotic blue & white\u00a0Chinoiserie design. It had a matching basin and was part of a larger wash set that would have been found on top of a bedroom washstand Jug measures […]<\/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":[15,19,40,100,119],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-blue-white","tag-english","tag-metal-handle","tag-pottery","tag-transferware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","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=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}