{"id":465,"date":"2010-03-17T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2015-03-28T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T14:28:11","slug":"chinese-imari-pattern-teapot-c-1750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Imari pattern teapot, c.1750"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese porcelain globular form teapot with Japanese influenced Imari decoration, stands 4&#8243; high. The bullet shape was inspired by European silver of the same period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2462.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4623\" title=\"IMG_2462\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2462.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2462.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2462-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4624\" title=\"IMG_2463\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24631.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24631-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the original porcelain handle broke off, the teapot was taken to a china mender and fitted with a bronze handle replacement. Finely woven rattan embellishes the metal handle as well as provides protection from the heat of a pot full\u00a0of hot tea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4625\" title=\"IMG_2464\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24641.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24641-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A silver rim was added to mask chips along the lid and a silver &#8220;safety&#8221; chain keeps the lid and the teapot together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4626\" title=\"IMG_2465\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24651.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24651-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This teapot with similar form and decoration still sports its original handle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-10.19.43-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9977\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-10.19.43-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-03-28 at 10.19.43 AM\" width=\"400\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-10.19.43-AM.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-28-at-10.19.43-AM-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/moorabool.com\">Moorabool Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese porcelain globular form teapot with Japanese influenced Imari decoration, stands 4&#8243; high. The bullet shape was inspired by European silver of the same period. When the original porcelain handle broke off, the teapot was taken to a china mender and fitted with a bronze handle replacement. Finely woven rattan embellishes the metal handle [&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":[87,7,45,29,40,93,17],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-bronze","tag-chinese","tag-globular","tag-imari","tag-metal-handle","tag-rattan","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}