{"id":6111,"date":"2012-08-25T16:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2012-08-26T20:10:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T01:10:37","slug":"miniature-pearlware-ladle-c-1840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=6111","title":{"rendered":"Miniature pearlware ladle, c.1840"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English miniature soft paste pottery pearlware ladle from set of child&#8217;s\u00a0dishes, measuring 3-3\/4&#8243; long and dating from the early to middle 1800s. The two broken halves are bound together by a criss cross of thin brass wire woven through 2 tiny holes on either side of the break. Small dabs of cement in each hole help secure the repair.<\/p>\n<p>I pity the small child who briefly lost the use of their ladle during what might have been a fantasy feast. And I applaud the person who came to the rescue, making the two broken pieces whole again, thus allowing the imaginary dinner party to continue!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6507\" title=\"IMG_3806\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3806.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3806-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6508\" title=\"IMG_3811\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38111.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38111-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6509\" title=\"IMG_3809\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3809.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3809-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6510\" title=\"IMG_3810\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3810.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3810.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3810-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6511\" title=\"IMG_3808\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38081.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_38081-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English miniature soft paste pottery pearlware ladle from set of child&#8217;s\u00a0dishes, measuring 3-3\/4&#8243; long and dating from the early to middle 1800s. The two broken halves are bound together by a criss cross of thin brass wire woven through 2 tiny holes on either side of the break. Small dabs of cement in each hole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[15,19,13,89,107,63],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serving","tag-blue-white","tag-english","tag-miniature","tag-pearlware","tag-soft-paste","tag-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","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=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}