{"id":8532,"date":"2014-04-18T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2014-04-21T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T11:57:06","slug":"inventive-repairs-at-the-ashmolean-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8532","title":{"rendered":"Inventive repairs at the Ashmolean Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I took a day trip to Oxford and made a beeline to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashmolean.org\">Ashmolean Museum<\/a>, Britain&#8217;s oldest public museum, which houses a world renowned collection of ceramics. Much to my delight, it also contains dozens of examples of porcelain and pottery with distinctly different types of early repairs. Amongst the &#8220;perfect&#8221; ceramics on display, and the ones with obvious repairs and replacement parts, are\u00a0many examples with metal\u00a0mounts, which I will tackle in a future post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0366.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8533\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0366.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0366\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0366.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0366-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0378.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8534\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0378.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0378\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0378.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0378-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8535\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0381.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0381\" width=\"400\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0381.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0381-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8540\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0371.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0371\" width=\"400\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0371.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0371-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8536\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0360.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0360\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0360.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0360-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0362.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8537\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0362.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0362\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0362.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0362-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0376.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8538\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0376.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0376\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0376.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0376-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I took a day trip to Oxford and made a beeline to the Ashmolean Museum, Britain&#8217;s oldest public museum, which houses a world renowned collection of ceramics. Much to my delight, it also contains dozens of examples of porcelain and pottery with distinctly different types of early repairs. Amongst the &#8220;perfect&#8221; ceramics on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532","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=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}