{"id":8632,"date":"2017-04-07T22:46:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T02:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2017-04-13T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T03:07:00","slug":"chinese-qianlong-plate-c-1750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8632","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Qianlong plate, c.1750"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This plate was made in China during the Qianlong period (1736\u20131795) for export to North America and Europe. It measures nearly 9.25 inches in diameter and is decorated in cobalt blue over a light blue ground.<\/p>\n<p>Well over 225 years ago after the plate dropped and a large chunk along the rim broke off,\u00a0it was taken to a china mender who reattached the broken pieces using metal staples. Hand marked in red on the underside is &#8220;Mrs. Lou Pearson&#8221;, which I assume is\u00a0the name of the owner who brought the plate in for repair.\u00a0Signed pieces such as this are uncommon and bring us one step closer\u00a0to the mostly undocumented world of the\u00a0men and women who did these marvelous, anonymous repairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=12043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12043\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9718.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9718-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9718-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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It measures nearly 9.25 inches in diameter and is decorated in cobalt blue over a light blue ground. Well over 225 years ago after the plate dropped and a large chunk along the rim broke off,\u00a0it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[15,7,16,76,120],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plate","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-porcelain","tag-qianlong","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","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=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}