{"id":8644,"date":"2014-09-07T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2014-09-07T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:55:58","slug":"london-shaped-tea-cup-c-1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8644","title":{"rendered":"London shape tea cup, c.1830"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This colorful Chinese porcelain London shape tea cup dates from 1820-1850 and is decorated in the Canton\u00a0rose palette. It measures 2-1\/2&#8243; \u00a0high and has\u00a0an opening diameter of 3-1\/4&#8243; . The outer polychrome enamel Mandarin decoration depicts a scene of\u00a0scholars in a garden, and the inside of the\u00a0rim has a deep painted\u00a0border of dragons with\u00a0small stylized clouds. This cup was originally a part of a large dinner service, custom ordered by most likely a wealthy English family.<\/p>\n<p>At some point in the early life of the cup, the original porcelain handle snapped off. But rather than simply toss out the damaged goods\u00a0as we would today, it was brought to a metalsmith, who fashioned a bronze replacement handle in the same form as the original. To me, the dark color and sculptural quality of the replacement handle makes this embellished cup much more interesting than its &#8220;perfect&#8221; counterpart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6088-Version-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9266\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6088-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6088 - Version 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6088-Version-2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6088-Version-2-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9271\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6097.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6097\" width=\"400\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6097.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6097-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6093.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9269\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6093.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6093\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6093.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6093-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6098.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9272\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6098.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6098\" width=\"400\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6098.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6098-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6098-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9268\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6092.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6092\" width=\"400\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6092.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6092-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9267\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6090.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6090\" width=\"400\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6090.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6090-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6090-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6094.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9270\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6094.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6094\" width=\"400\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6094.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6094-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tea cup still has its original handle intact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mandarin-cup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8645\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mandarin-cup.jpg\" alt=\"mandarin cup\" width=\"400\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mandarin-cup.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mandarin-cup-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/101antiquesword.com\">Hundred &amp; One Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This colorful Chinese porcelain London shape tea cup dates from 1820-1850 and is decorated in the Canton\u00a0rose palette. It measures 2-1\/2&#8243; \u00a0high and has\u00a0an opening diameter of 3-1\/4&#8243; . The outer polychrome enamel Mandarin decoration depicts a scene of\u00a0scholars in a garden, and the inside of the\u00a0rim has a deep painted\u00a0border of dragons with\u00a0small stylized [&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":[7,86,40,16],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","tag-chinese","tag-mandarin","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","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=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9284,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}