{"id":291,"date":"2010-03-14T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:17:10","slug":"large-chinese-mandarin-mug-c-1780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Large Chinese Mandarin mug, c.1780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy porcelain Chinese export mug with flared base made during the Quinlong Period (1736-95) measures 6-1\/2&#8243; high. It has an intricately painted courtyard scene in the Mandarin palette with\u00a0polychrome enamel decoration, including a diaperwork background with gilt highlights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2266\" title=\"IMG_1938\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19381.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19381-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2267\" title=\"IMG_1942\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19421.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19421-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2268\" title=\"IMG_1939\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1939.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1939-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An unusual replacement handle was made from an early bronze ruler. I have many replacement handles made of bronze in my collection and did not realize this particular one was formerly a ruler until I got it home and studied it more closely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2269\" title=\"IMG_1941\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19411.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19411-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This strikingly similar mug with original porcelain handle shows what the handle might have looked like on my mug before it was replaced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/l1140_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2264\" title=\"l1140_3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/l1140_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/l1140_3.jpg 339w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/l1140_3-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burchardgalleries.com\">Burchard Galleries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy porcelain Chinese export mug with flared base made during the Quinlong Period (1736-95) measures 6-1\/2&#8243; high. It has an intricately painted courtyard scene in the Mandarin palette with\u00a0polychrome enamel decoration, including a diaperwork background with gilt highlights. An unusual replacement handle was made from an early bronze ruler. I have many replacement handles made [&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":[87,7,86,40,16],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mugtankard","tag-bronze","tag-chinese","tag-mandarin","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}