{"id":6792,"date":"2013-02-16T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2017-01-15T10:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T15:11:34","slug":"wucai-teapot-with-misplaced-handle-c-1690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=6792","title":{"rendered":"Wucai teapot with misplaced handle, c.1690"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This early porcelain teapot was made in China in the late 1600s and is a good example of an original form shifting to become current with the next generation. It is decorated in the Wucai palette, consisting of five enamel\u00a0colors outlined in black and measures 5.5 inches high and\u00a07.25 inches from handle to spout. What I love most about this piece is that by the time the original fixed upright handle\u00a0broke off, it was replaced with a rattan-wrapped metal handle attached to the side of the teapot. Most likely the break occurred over one hundred years after the teapot was made, which explains why the placement of the new handle is more in keeping with teapots of the early 19th century. This act of altering the original form of a piece is reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1733\">clobbered wares<\/a>; a practice of painting over\u00a0simply decorated porcelain with multi color enamels to appeal to changing styles.\u00a0An added bonus is the presence of long meal staples at the top of the neck, holding together two broken pieces back in place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=6873\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6873\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5586.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5586\" width=\"399\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5586.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5586-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=6874\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6874\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5587.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5587\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5587.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5587-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=6875\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6875\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5588.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5588\" width=\"399\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5588.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5588-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=6876\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6876\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5590.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5590\" width=\"399\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5590.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5590-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=6877\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6877\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6877\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5594.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5594\" width=\"399\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5594.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5594-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=6878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6878\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5596.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5596\" width=\"399\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5596.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5596-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=6879\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6879\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5598.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5598\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5598.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5598-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This teapot shows what the fixed vertical handle on my teapot would have looked like before the replacement handle was attached to the side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/136911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6793\" title=\"13691\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/136911.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/136911.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/136911-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/graysantiques.com\/\">Grays<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This early porcelain teapot was made in China in the late 1600s and is a good example of an original form shifting to become current with the next generation. It is decorated in the Wucai palette, consisting of five enamel\u00a0colors outlined in black and measures 5.5 inches high and\u00a07.25 inches from handle to spout. What [&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":[7,40,16,93,120],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-chinese","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain","tag-rattan","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","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=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11823,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/11823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}