{"id":842,"date":"2010-03-22T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2011-01-07T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T19:01:32","slug":"pekin-pattern-cup-c-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pekin&#8221; pattern cup, c.1880"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An English porcelain cup made by Beech &amp; Hancock in Stoke-on-Trent in the late 1800&#8217;s has hand-painted color washes over a &#8220;Pekin&#8221;\u00a0transfer design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1835_22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4764\" title=\"IMG_1835_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1835_22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1835_22.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1835_22-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This popular image of two Chinese opium smokers was later altered, deleting all traces of the once legal past time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4765\" title=\"IMG_1837\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18371.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18371-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unusual &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; removable handle from the early 1900&#8217;s looks like something found at a local hardware store. The remains of the original handle are clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4766\" title=\"IMG_1838\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18381.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18381-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A plate showing the later design, minus the opium pipes and more family friendly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pekin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-847\" title=\"Pekin2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pekin2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the great, great grandson of maker <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/johnbeech02\/jamesbeech\">James Beech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An English porcelain cup made by Beech &amp; Hancock in Stoke-on-Trent in the late 1800&#8217;s has hand-painted color washes over a &#8220;Pekin&#8221;\u00a0transfer design. This popular image of two Chinese opium smokers was later altered, deleting all traces of the once legal past time. The unusual &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; removable handle from the early 1900&#8217;s looks like something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[19,40,16],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","tag-english","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}