{"id":2979,"date":"2016-11-20T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T15:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2016-11-21T07:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:56:23","slug":"chinese-jug-with-pewter-handle-c-1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"Chinese jug with pewter handle, c.1775"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This porcelain cream jug with baluster form and a sparrow beak spout was\u00a0made in China during\u00a0the Qianlong period (1736-96.) It\u00a0is decorated in the Famille Rose palette and measures 4 inches high and is about 4 inches wide. The floral swag decoration suggests it was made for the French market.<\/p>\n<p>I can just imagine a French maid in the early 1800s, clearing\u00a0the breakfast table, grabbing this little jug with\u00a0fingers still dripping\u00a0with\u00a0butter from making croissants, and letting it slip and tumble to\u00a0the ground. Sadly, the cover and handle must have broken\u00a0into too many pieces to repair, so\u00a0a tinker was engaged and created a pewter replacement handle. Not sure if the shattered\u00a0cover or the maid with shattered nerves\u00a0were\u00a0ever replaced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2488.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2980\" title=\"IMG_2488\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2488.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2488-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2490.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2981\" title=\"IMG_2490\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2490.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2490-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2489.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2982\" title=\"IMG_2489\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2489.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2489-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2983\" title=\"IMG_2491\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2491.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2491-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This jug with similar form and decoration shows what the the original handle and cover on mine looked like before it took a tumble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11628\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11628\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/990632.jpg\" alt=\"990632\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/990632.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/990632-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/990632-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewdando.co.uk\">Andrew Dando<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This porcelain cream jug with baluster form and a sparrow beak spout was\u00a0made in China during\u00a0the Qianlong period (1736-96.) It\u00a0is decorated in the Famille Rose palette and measures 4 inches high and is about 4 inches wide. The floral swag decoration suggests it was made for the French market. I can just imagine a French [&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":[7,55,40,16,76],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-chinese","tag-french","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain","tag-qianlong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","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=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11638,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/11638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}