{"id":5558,"date":"2011-09-09T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T00:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2016-11-18T19:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:45:02","slug":"chinese-porcelain-charger-with-35-staples-c-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=5558","title":{"rendered":"Chinese charger with 35 staples, c.1730"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This large porcelain charger, made in China during the\u00a0Yongzheng period (1723-35), measures 13-3\/4&#8243; in diameter. The famille-rose palette\u00a0with\u00a0predominantly pink colored enamel is made from colloidal gold,\u00a0a suspension of gold particles mixed into the glaze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7483_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5559\" title=\"IMG_7483_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7483_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7483_2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7483_2-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The polychrome decoration of a large tree on a\u00a0terrace\u00a0with over-scaled\u00a0flowers\u00a0is painted in shades of green, pink and blue on a pale green ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7475.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5560\" title=\"IMG_7475\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7475.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7475-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7475-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After this charger was dropped and broke in to over 20 pieces of varying sizes, an itinerant china mender made it whole again by carefully drilling holes in to the underside of the porcelain and securing 35 metal staples to either side of the cracks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7477_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5561\" title=\"IMG_7477_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7477_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7477_2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7477_2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7477_2-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The disarray of cracks and staples make a wonderful pattern of their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7479.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5562\" title=\"IMG_7479\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7479.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7479.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7479-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These unusual metal staples have a deep ridge running through each length.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7482.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5563\" title=\"IMG_7482\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7482.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7482-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This large porcelain charger, made in China during the\u00a0Yongzheng period (1723-35), measures 13-3\/4&#8243; in diameter. The famille-rose palette\u00a0with\u00a0predominantly pink colored enamel is made from colloidal gold,\u00a0a suspension of gold particles mixed into the glaze. The polychrome decoration of a large tree on a\u00a0terrace\u00a0with over-scaled\u00a0flowers\u00a0is painted in shades of green, pink and blue on a pale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[7,16,120],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plate","tag-chinese","tag-porcelain","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","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=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}