{"id":3572,"date":"2011-03-09T13:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2011-06-04T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T19:39:42","slug":"imperial-nanking-cup-saucer-c-1810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Nanking cup &#038; saucer, c.1810"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delicate Imperial Nanking porcelain cup with matching saucer, decorated\u00a0in cobalt blue underglaze with gilt overglaze trim. Both pieces have a scalloped rim\u00a0and were made in China for export to Europe and North America in the early 1800&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3573\" title=\"IMG_2274\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2274.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2274-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cup measures 2-1\/4&#8243; high, with a diameter of 2-1\/4&#8243; and the saucer has a diameter of 5&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2272.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3574\" title=\"IMG_2272\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2272.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2272-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2276_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3577\" title=\"IMG_2276_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2276_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2276_2.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2276_2-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the lapped reeded handle broke off nearly 160 years ago leaving just the leaf terminals, a skilled metalsmith forged a bronze handle and covered it with woven rattan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2280_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2280_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2280_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original handle on my cup would have looked like the one on this cup of similar form and decoration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imperial.nanking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5866\" title=\"imperial.nanking\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imperial.nanking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imperial.nanking.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imperial.nanking-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trocadero.com\/mckinleyhill\/items\/1019547\/item1019547store.html#item\">Trocadero<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delicate Imperial Nanking porcelain cup with matching saucer, decorated\u00a0in cobalt blue underglaze with gilt overglaze trim. 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The cup measures 2-1\/4&#8243; high, with a diameter of 2-1\/4&#8243; and the saucer has a diameter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,8],"tags":[15,7,40,93],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","category-saucer","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-metal-handle","tag-rattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","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=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5865,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/5865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}