{"id":5595,"date":"2012-08-11T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T23:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2012-08-11T18:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T23:15:38","slug":"worcester-porcelain-plate-c-1770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Worcester porcelain plate, c.1770"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Porcelain plate made in England by Worcester in the late 1700s is brightly decorated with cartouches containing colorful floral sprays surrounded by gilt scrollwork and a scale background of mottled cobalt blue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_74671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5597\" title=\"IMG_7467\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_74671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_74671.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_74671-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unsigned plate measures 9-1\/2&#8243; in diameter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5598\" title=\"IMG_7468\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7468.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7468-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although most items I have seen repaired with metal staples are holding multiple pieces back together, this plate has bronze staples stabilizing cracks against further damage. I like how the symmetrical pattern of the cracks and the staples form an almost perfect peace sign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5599\" title=\"IMG_7470\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7470.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7470-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5600\" title=\"IMG_7473\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7473.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7473-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porcelain plate made in England by Worcester in the late 1700s is brightly decorated with cartouches containing colorful floral sprays surrounded by gilt scrollwork and a scale background of mottled cobalt blue. Unsigned plate measures 9-1\/2&#8243; in diameter. Although most items I have seen repaired with metal staples are holding multiple pieces back together, this [&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":[19,16,120],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plate","tag-english","tag-porcelain","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","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=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6384,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/6384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}