{"id":8710,"date":"2017-02-19T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T14:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:40:50","slug":"french-faience-patriotique-plate-c-1790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8710","title":{"rendered":"French faience patriotique plate, c.1790"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate the end of the French Revolution, post-revolutionaries planted trees to celebrate their freedom. This well-used earthenware\u00a0<em>faience patriotique<\/em> plate with\u00a0tin glaze was made in Nevers, France, in the late 1700s. It\u00a0is made of red clay and decorated with\u00a0polychrome enamels to emulate Chinese porcelain. \u00a0The Liberty Tree\u00a0depicted\u00a0here reflects the patriotism\u00a0of the French.<\/p>\n<p>The underside of this plate reveals even more history, as over a dozen\u00a0rusted iron staples still hold the damaged plate together after it was shattered more than 200 years ago. Plaster was used to fill the\u00a0gaps that were left surrounding\u00a0the tiny\u00a0holes. To me, the unintentional overall pattern made\u00a0by the staples on the underside are just as interesting as the design made by the artist on the front of the plate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11941\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11941\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11941\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7656-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7656-Version-2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7656-Version-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7656-Version-2-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11942\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7657.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7657-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7657-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11943\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7658-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7658-Version-2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7658-Version-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7658-Version-2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11944\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7661.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7661-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7661-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11945\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7662.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7662-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7662-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate the end of the French Revolution, post-revolutionaries planted trees to celebrate their freedom. This well-used earthenware\u00a0faience patriotique plate with\u00a0tin glaze was made in Nevers, France, in the late 1700s. It\u00a0is made of red clay and decorated with\u00a0polychrome enamels to emulate Chinese porcelain. \u00a0The Liberty Tree\u00a0depicted\u00a0here reflects the patriotism\u00a0of the French. The underside of [&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":[55,100,120,56],"class_list":["post-8710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plate","tag-french","tag-pottery","tag-staplesrivets","tag-tin-glaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710","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=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11960,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}