{"id":3803,"date":"2016-11-13T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2016-11-24T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T19:51:56","slug":"pewter-teapot-c-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=3803","title":{"rendered":"Pewter teapot, c.1850"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This unassuming\u00a0pewter teapot was most likely made in America in the mid 19th century. It stands 9 inches tall and has\u00a0a fanciful wooden handle and knob. As pewter is a soft and malleable metal, many early pieces did not survive intact. This pot is one such example.<\/p>\n<p>At some point during the past 160+ years, the original base was damaged and the tea stopped flowing. A tinsmith fashioned a simple\u00a0tin conical foot as a replacement and the teapot was able to function\u00a0once again. At the time of\u00a0the repair, the\u00a0shiny metal base\u00a0stood in stark contrast to\u00a0the dull pewter. But today, both metals appear to have melded and the repair is now hard to detect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5376.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3804\" title=\"IMG_5376\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5376.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5376.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5376-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5382.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3806\" title=\"IMG_5382\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5382.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5382-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3805\" title=\"IMG_5381\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5381.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5381-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pewter teapot with similar form\u00a0suggests\u00a0what the original base on mine might\u00a0have looked like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11602\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11602\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-3.jpg\" alt=\"s-l1600\" width=\"400\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s-l1600-3-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\">eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This unassuming\u00a0pewter teapot was most likely made in America in the mid 19th century. It stands 9 inches tall and has\u00a0a fanciful wooden handle and knob. As pewter is a soft and malleable metal, many early pieces did not survive intact. This pot is one such example. At some point during the past 160+ years, [&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":[62,44,27],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-american","tag-metal-base","tag-pewter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11649,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/11649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}