{"id":886,"date":"2010-03-23T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2011-03-13T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T14:32:13","slug":"reticulated-canton-chestnut-basket-c-1820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Reticulated Nanking chestnut basket, c.1820"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese export\u00a0porcelain chestnut basket, measuring 6-3\/4&#8243; long and 2-1\/2&#8243; high, and decorated with a classic cobalt blue Nanking design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4785\" title=\"IMG_2266\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22661.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22661-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baskets such as these with pierced sides were used for fruit, so air could better circulate around the contents. They also had molded porcelain handles, gilded to look like they were made of metal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4786\" title=\"IMG_2264\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22641.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22641-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How ironic that when the original porcelain &#8220;metal&#8221; handles broke off, they were replace with actual metal handles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4787\" title=\"IMG_2265\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22651.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22651.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_22651-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metal staples and bolts were also used to help put this piece back together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6806.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5135\" title=\"IMG_6806\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6806.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6806.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6806-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This basket in perfect condition, showing original gilt porcelain handles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/canton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-890\" title=\"canton\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/canton-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/canton-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/canton.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthpoint.com\">WorthPoint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese export\u00a0porcelain chestnut basket, measuring 6-3\/4&#8243; long and 2-1\/2&#8243; high, and decorated with a classic cobalt blue Nanking design. Baskets such as these with pierced sides were used for fruit, so air could better circulate around the contents. They also had molded porcelain handles, gilded to look like they were made of metal. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[15,7,40,16,120],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bowl","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}