{"id":2917,"date":"2014-05-24T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T22:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2014-05-28T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T11:22:29","slug":"soft-paste-parrots-teapot-c-1770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"Soft paste parrots teapot, c.1770"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During one of my early\u00a0trips to the UK in search of ceramics with inventive repairs, I found this charming\u00a0Chinese soft paste porcelain teapot decorated in the\u00a0famille rose palette and painted with colorful parrots and flowers in polychrome enamels with gilt highlights. The teapot\u00a0measures\u00a05&#8243; high and is 9&#8243; wide from handle to spout and was made during the Qianlong period (1736-1796) for export to Europe and North America.<\/p>\n<p>After a tumble, the fanciful\u00a0spout, which most likely matched the bamboo-form handle, broke off and was replaced by a more streamline\u00a0metal\u00a0one with a decorative backplate. Curiously, the handle did not suffer from the fall and remains intact. There is no way of knowing what happened to the original lid, but it has been replaced by a 20th century silver plated cover that fits snugly but looks nothing like the porcelain original. If only this pot could talk!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2918\" title=\"IMG_2444\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2444.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2444-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3372_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2996\" title=\"IMG_3372_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3372_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3372_2.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3372_2-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2920\" title=\"IMG_2445\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2445.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2445-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2447_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2921\" title=\"IMG_2447_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2447_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2447_2.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2447_2-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2446_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2922\" title=\"IMG_2446_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2446_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2446_2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2446_2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This teapot with similar form\u00a0shows what the original spout and lid on my teapot\u00a0might have looked like before it took a tumble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/teapot-bamboo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8871\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/teapot-bamboo.jpg\" alt=\"teapot-bamboo\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/teapot-bamboo.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/teapot-bamboo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandekar.com\">Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During one of my early\u00a0trips to the UK in search of ceramics with inventive repairs, I found this charming\u00a0Chinese soft paste porcelain teapot decorated in the\u00a0famille rose palette and painted with colorful parrots and flowers in polychrome enamels with gilt highlights. The teapot\u00a0measures\u00a05&#8243; high and is 9&#8243; wide from handle to spout and was 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":[3],"tags":[7,77,124,16,17,107],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-chinese","tag-metal-lid","tag-metal-spout","tag-porcelain","tag-silver","tag-soft-paste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8882,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/8882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}