{"id":8623,"date":"2014-06-07T23:56:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2014-06-14T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:24:38","slug":"not-a-make-do-yixing-teapot-c-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not a make-do&#8221; Yixing teapot, c.1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased this little teapot thinking it was an example of Chinese Yixing ware with an elaborate early repair. It measures 7-1\/2&#8243; from spout to handle and is about 4&#8243; high to top of finial. The shape appears to be typically Yixing but the brass lid, spout and horizontal strap, as well as the unusual incised mark on the underside, made me a bit suspicious. Now I feel the teapot dates from the latter part of the\u00a019th century and was made in China for export to the Middle East, and that\u00a0the mark on the base is Arabic. The brass spout and lid were most likely a part of the original design to help prolong the life of the teapot and not added to replace broken or missing parts. Learning to know the difference between a piece with an inventive repair and a piece that was designed with metal mounts can be a valuable, though sometimes a costly, lesson. Luckily, I did not pay very much for this &#8220;not-a-make-do&#8221; teapot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5477-Version-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8912\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5477-Version-21.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5477 - Version 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5477-Version-21.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5477-Version-21-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8913\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5480.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5480\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5480.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5480-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5482.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8914\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5482.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5482\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5482.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5482-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8917\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5483.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5483\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5483.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5483-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8915\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5484.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5484\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5484.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5484-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8916\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5485.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5485\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5485.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5485-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased this little teapot thinking it was an example of Chinese Yixing ware with an elaborate early repair. It measures 7-1\/2&#8243; from spout to handle and is about 4&#8243; high to top of finial. The shape appears to be typically Yixing but the brass lid, spout and horizontal strap, as well as the unusual [&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":[72,7,77,124,100,47],"class_list":["post-8623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-brass","tag-chinese","tag-metal-lid","tag-metal-spout","tag-pottery","tag-yixing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623","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=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8927,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions\/8927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}