{"id":615,"date":"2010-03-18T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-08-22T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T02:10:49","slug":"stick-spatter-peafowl-teapot-c-1810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Stick spatter peafowl teapot, c.1810"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English soft paste pottery teapot in the new oval shape, decorated with folksy bird decoration and unusual &#8220;S.T.&#8221; initials, measures 11&#8243; long and 5-3\/4&#8243; high. My mother purchased this wonderful teapot\u00a0in the mid-1970s, where it sat on a shelf in our kitchen for over 20 years. It was recently given to me as a birthday gift and is a welcomed addition to my collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24384.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4651\" title=\"IMG_2438\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24384.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24384-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same naive decoration is on both sides of the teapot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4652\" title=\"IMG_2439\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24391.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24391.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24391-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simply formed tin lid from the mid-1880&#8217;s replaced the original lost or broken lid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4653\" title=\"IMG_2440\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24402.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_24402-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This miniature tea set has a similar peafowl decoration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1451m1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4981\" title=\"1451m1-1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1451m1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1451m1-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1451m1-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquepottery.co.uk\">John Howard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English soft paste pottery teapot in the new oval shape, decorated with folksy bird decoration and unusual &#8220;S.T.&#8221; initials, measures 11&#8243; long and 5-3\/4&#8243; high. My mother purchased this wonderful teapot\u00a0in the mid-1970s, where it sat on a shelf in our kitchen for over 20 years. It was recently given to me as a birthday [&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":[19,126,77,107,116],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-english","tag-lid","tag-metal-lid","tag-soft-paste","tag-stick-spatter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}