{"id":5812,"date":"2019-01-06T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2019-01-06T10:17:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:17:47","slug":"porcelain-cup-with-metal-handle-c-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=5812","title":{"rendered":"Porcelain cup with metal handle, c.1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I was traveling back from Southeast Asia and didn&#8217;t get the chance to wish you all a Happy New Year.\u00a0The image on this charming cup seems to be an appropriate way to welcome 2019, so Happy New Year&#8230;one week later!<\/p>\n<p>This porcelain Bute shape cup has\u00a0hand painted\u00a0decoration en grisaille (shades of gray) of a young boy tooting a horn.\u00a0It has gilt bands around the rim and base. Cup measures 2.25 inches high, with an opening diameter of 3 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Much like a 1980s mullet &#8211; though a lot more attractive &#8211; this cup is business in front, party in the back. The bronze handle, which replaced the original broken one over 100 years ago, is unseen from the front but clearly visible from the side and back. The underside has a cobalt blue mark, suggesting the cup is Continental or English. If anyone knows for sure, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5813\" title=\"IMG_8134\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8134.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8134-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_8136\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5814\" title=\"IMG_8133\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8133.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8133-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5815\" title=\"IMG_8135\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8135.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8135-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5817\" title=\"IMG_8140\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8140.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8140-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5818\" title=\"IMG_8143\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8143.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8143-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I was traveling back from Southeast Asia and didn&#8217;t get the chance to wish you all a Happy New Year.\u00a0The image on this charming cup seems to be an appropriate way to welcome 2019, so Happy New Year&#8230;one week later! This porcelain Bute shape cup has\u00a0hand painted\u00a0decoration en grisaille (shades of gray) of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[144,40,16],"class_list":["post-5812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","tag-continental","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812","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=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13408,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions\/13408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}