{"id":7840,"date":"2016-06-05T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2016-06-05T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T17:23:43","slug":"worcester-bride-of-frankenstein-jug-c-1780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=7840","title":{"rendered":"Worcester “Bride of Frankenstein” jug, c.1780"},"content":{"rendered":"

This First Period Worcester sparrow beak cream jug has cobalt printed transfer decoration in the “Fisherman and Cormorant” or “Pleasure Boat” pattern. On the underside is a cobalt hatched crescent C mark, used at the Worcester factory between 1755 and 1790. It stands\u00a03.5 inches tall.<\/p>\n

At first glance this small jug appears to have\u00a0a common metal pin\u00a0repair to the handle, but\u00a0upon closer inspection\u00a0you will see it has a much more interesting tale to tell. This\u00a0is a marriage repair:\u00a0two different broken items\u00a0that become\u00a0one\u00a0unique piece. I call\u00a0this my\u00a0Bride of Frankenstein Jug, in\u00a0homage to my Monster Mug<\/a>, a large Chinese export mug with a replacement handle made from a\u00a0Mason\u2019s Ironstone Hydra jug. In both cases, rather than a\u00a0tinker making a metal replacement handle, a crafty repairer carefully removed the handles from damaged\u00a0jugs and grafted them onto the bodies of these\u00a0vessels. The ground down remains of the old\u00a0handle are still visible, as the replacement is shorter than the original.<\/p>\n

One can only imagine what became of the original broken donor jug, as once the\u00a0usable parts were removed and used to bring the other jug back to life, its\u00a0remains were most likely cast aside in a dump, eventually crumbling and returning to the earth.<\/p>\n

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This identical jug shows what the original handle on mine looked like before it\u00a0became undone.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of The Saleroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This First Period Worcester sparrow beak cream jug has cobalt printed transfer decoration in the “Fisherman and Cormorant” or “Pleasure Boat” pattern. On the underside is a cobalt hatched crescent C mark, used at the Worcester factory between 1755 and 1790. It stands\u00a03.5 inches tall. At first glance this small jug appears to have\u00a0a common […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,19,171,16],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-blue-white","tag-english","tag-metal-pins","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","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=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11060,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/11060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}