{"id":6367,"date":"2018-08-12T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2018-08-12T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T14:08:19","slug":"rose-medallion-coffee-pot-c-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=6367","title":{"rendered":"Rose Medallion coffee pot, c.1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This bulbous form porcelain coffee pot was made in China during the Qing dynasty, circa 1850-1890. It is decorated with figures, birds, butterflies and flowers in the Rose Medallion palette, including green, pink, yellow, blue, black and gold enamels. It measures 7.25 inches high and 8 inches wide from handle to spout.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance you may wonder why this seemingly &#8220;perfect&#8221; pot has made its way into my collection. But look closely and you will find a couple of large cracks on the the sides, held tightly together with the aid of 3 large metal grooved staples.\u00a0It is neither exceptional nor rare, but I like it because it has kept its dignity intact after surviving a tumble well over 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3687.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6824\" title=\"IMG_3687\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3687.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3687-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3687-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=12783\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12783\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3690-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3690-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3690-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3690-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=12782\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12782\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3689.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3689-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3689-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=12784\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12784\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3691-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3691-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3691-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3691-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=12785\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12785\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3692-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3692-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3692-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3692-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a similar coffee pot, along with a matching sugar bowl and creamer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=13290\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13290\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-12-at-9.52.37-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-12-at-9.52.37-AM.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-12-at-9.52.37-AM-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-12-at-9.52.37-AM-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubylane.com\">Ruby Lane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bulbous form porcelain coffee pot was made in China during the Qing dynasty, circa 1850-1890. It is decorated with figures, birds, butterflies and flowers in the Rose Medallion palette, including green, pink, yellow, blue, black and gold enamels. It measures 7.25 inches high and 8 inches wide from handle to spout. At first glance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[7,16,120],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffeechocolate-pot","tag-chinese","tag-porcelain","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","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=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13291,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/13291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}