{"id":2816,"date":"2010-11-04T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:44:22","slug":"qianlong-cream-jug-c-1750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"Qianlong cream jug, c.1750"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely porcelain baluster form cream jug with sparrow beak spout, decorated in the Famille Rose palette. Made in China during the Qianlong period (1736-96)\u00a0for export to North America and Europe, when fine porcelain was in high demand<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2098.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817\" title=\"IMG_2098\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2098.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2098.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2098-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The delicate ornamentation rendered in polychrome enamels depicts a cashpot, itself decorated, and spilling with flowers, vines and a pumpkin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2818\" title=\"IMG_2100\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2100.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2100-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jug stands 3-1\/2&#8243; tall, minus its lost cover<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2099.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2819\" title=\"IMG_2099\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2099.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2099.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2099-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When this jug was dropped and its handle lost, it was brought to a metalsmith who fashioned a replacement handle from bronze. The scroll shape of the new handle, more elaborate in form than its predecessor, suggests it was forged in the early to mid-1800&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2820\" title=\"IMG_2101\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2101.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2101-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2101-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This cream jug, from the same period and of similar form and decoration, has its original cover and handle intact<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXQ72-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3862\" title=\"XXQ72-1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXQ72-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXQ72-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/XXQ72-1-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinese-porcelain-art.com\">Guest &amp; Gray<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely porcelain baluster form cream jug with sparrow beak spout, decorated in the Famille Rose palette. Made in China during the Qianlong period (1736-96)\u00a0for export to North America and Europe, when fine porcelain was in high demand The delicate ornamentation rendered in polychrome enamels depicts a cashpot, itself decorated, and spilling with flowers, vines [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,7,40,76],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-bronze","tag-chinese","tag-metal-handle","tag-qianlong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","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=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}