{"id":2867,"date":"2010-08-02T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2011-02-23T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:14:20","slug":"chinese-footed-dish-with-fort-scene-c-1840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Chinese footed dish with fort scene, c.1840"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful Chinese export quatrefoil footed dish with an unusual fort scene, painted in polychrome enamels and measures 11&#8243; by 8-3\/4&#8243; and is 2-3\/4&#8243; high. I found this piece in 1995 at the long gone and much missed outdoor Chelsea flea market on Sixth Avenue &amp; 26th Street in NYC. At the time of purchase, I paid more for this dish than any other piece in my collection, but I loved the decoration combined with the many repairs and had to have it. Fifteen years later, it remains a favorite of mine and I have yet to see another example with a similar decoration<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2868\" title=\"IMG_3346\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3346.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3346-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3353.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2870\" title=\"IMG_3353\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3353.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3353-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone can translate these Chinese characters I would greatly appreciate it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3349.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2871\" title=\"IMG_3349\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3349.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3349-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple repairs include metal &#8220;cuff&#8221;\u00a0patches mask large chips along the edges&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3348.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2872\" title=\"IMG_3348\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3348.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3348-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and crudely made lozenge-shaped iron rivets, which seem to have been mass produced and are different than the more commonly seen\u00a0staples made from wire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3354.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2873\" title=\"IMG_3354\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3354.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3354-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3356.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2874\" title=\"IMG_3356\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3356.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3356-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decoration on my dish could have been inspired by Fort Folly in the Pearl River, as seen in this fine China trade oil painting, c.1840<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13240follyfort-d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3519\" title=\"13240follyfort-d\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13240follyfort-d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13240follyfort-d.jpg 392w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13240follyfort-d-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardgouldantiques.com\">Richard Gould Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful Chinese export quatrefoil footed dish with an unusual fort scene, painted in polychrome enamels and measures 11&#8243; by 8-3\/4&#8243; and is 2-3\/4&#8243; high. I found this piece in 1995 at the long gone and much missed outdoor Chelsea flea market on Sixth Avenue &amp; 26th Street in NYC. At the time of purchase, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[7,152,16,120],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bowl","tag-chinese","tag-metal-patch","tag-porcelain","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","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=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}