{"id":8958,"date":"2014-08-03T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2016-02-06T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T17:12:22","slug":"signed-chinese-jug-with-split-handle-c-1740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8958","title":{"rendered":"Signed Chinese jug with split handle, c.1740"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Chinese baluster shaped porcelain jug, with molded spout in the manner of European silver, has\u00a0hand painted underglaze cobalt blue Nanking decoration of houses, trees and birds. It dates from the middle of the 18th century and stands nearly 8″ \u00a0tall.<\/p>\n

Over 100 years ago when the original reeded strap handle broke off, an unusual split form\u00a0metal replacement handle was added. A clever tinker reinterpreted the original handle design by forging\u00a0a\u00a0bronze loop handle\u00a0into four extensions and adding\u00a0small discs, which were riveted to the leaf terminals. The remains of an intricately woven rattan sheath are found on about one third of the handle. Most curiously, there is\u00a0an\u00a0engraved signature on the underside, difficult\u00a0to decipher, which may be the name of the china mender or of a previous owner. If anyone knows more about this marking, please let me know.<\/p>\n

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This jug with similar form and decoration shows what the original handle on my jug may have looked like.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Chinese baluster shaped porcelain jug, with molded spout in the manner of European silver, has\u00a0hand painted underglaze cobalt blue Nanking decoration of houses, trees and birds. It dates from the middle of the 18th century and stands nearly 8″ \u00a0tall. Over 100 years ago when the original reeded strap handle broke off, an unusual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,87,7,40,16,93],"class_list":["post-8958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-blue-white","tag-bronze","tag-chinese","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain","tag-rattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958","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=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10554,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}