{"id":388,"date":"2010-03-15T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-02-13T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T17:20:16","slug":"baluster-cruet-jug-c-1710","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Baluster cruet jug, c.1710"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A unusual Chinese porcelain baluster form cruet jug with beak spout, stands 5-1\/2&#8243; high. It is decorated in the Chinese Imari pattern, using cobalt blue and iron red enamel washes and gilt highlights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1773_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4602\" title=\"IMG_1773_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1773_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1773_21.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1773_21-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1774.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_1774\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original porcelain handle has been replaced by a woven rattan covered gilt bronze handle, set at right angle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_17751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4604\" title=\"IMG_1775\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_17751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_17751.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_17751-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7084.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5281\" title=\"IMG_7084\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7084.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7084.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7084-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These three examples of similarly formed cruet jugs each have their original handles &amp; lids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d4855323x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-390\" title=\"d4855323x\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d4855323x-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d4855323x-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/d4855323x.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\">Christie&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unusual Chinese porcelain baluster form cruet jug with beak spout, stands 5-1\/2&#8243; high. It is decorated in the Chinese Imari pattern, using cobalt blue and iron red enamel washes and gilt highlights. The original porcelain handle has been replaced by a woven rattan covered gilt bronze handle, set at right angle. These three examples [&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":[87,7,29,40,16,93],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-bronze","tag-chinese","tag-imari","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain","tag-rattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}