{"id":6380,"date":"2012-11-24T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2012-11-24T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T00:08:31","slug":"chinese-english-monster-mug-c-1780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=6380","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-English “monster mug”, c.1780"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the story of a forced marriage between an 18th century Chinese porcelain mug and a 19th century English pottery jug, joined together by a mad tinker to live out the rest of their lives as one. The Qianlong period (1736-1795) mug\u00a0with cobalt blue underglaze design stands 5-1\/8″ high. The original handle, most likely in the form of a dragon, broke off sometime in the early 1800s. I imagine a clever repairer (or Dr. Frankenstein?) found a damaged English stoneware pottery jug, skillfully removed the intact snake-shaped\u00a0handle\u00a0and, using two metal rivets, reattached it to the body of a Chinese tankard…creating a hybrid Anglo-Asian monster mug!<\/p>\n

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This is what the original dragon handle on my Chinese mug would have looked like before it broke off.\u00a0Photo courtesy of\u00a0Ruby Lane<\/a><\/p>\n

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And this Mason’s Ironstone “Hydra” jug, made in Staffordshire, c.1830,\u00a0shows the serpent handle intact.\u00a0Photo courtesy of\u00a0Selling Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is the story of a forced marriage between an 18th century Chinese porcelain mug and a 19th century English pottery jug, joined together by a mad tinker to live out the rest of their lives as one. The Qianlong period (1736-1795) mug\u00a0with cobalt blue underglaze design stands 5-1\/8″ high. The original handle, most likely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[15,7,19,16,100,120],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mugtankard","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-english","tag-porcelain","tag-pottery","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","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=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}