{"id":9469,"date":"2014-11-16T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2014-11-16T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:45:25","slug":"chinese-teapot-with-european-subject-c-1750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9469","title":{"rendered":"Chinese teapot with European subject, c.1750"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This delicate porcelain teapot was made in China for export to Europe during the Qianlong reign (1711-1799.) It is decorated &#8220;en grisaille&#8221;, a pencil style drawing in black, with\u00a0touches of overglaze enamel of iron red and gilt. The European subject depicts a lady in her boudoir daintily clipping her toe nails as a male attendant watches nearby. This must have been a racy subject for the Chinese porcelain painters, raising more than a few eyebrows in the studio. Decoration of this kind\u00a0was typically based on current popular engravings, reinterpreted by Chinese painters with sometimes amusing results.<\/p>\n<p>When this 3-3\/8&#8243; high\u00a0teapot dropped and broke in half, a china mender stapled it back together. I like how the bold metal staples and the darkened cracks add another layer of\u00a0pattern\u00a0to the decoration. The lid,\u00a0possibly broken at the same time that the pot\u00a0was damaged, has since gone missing. I am hoping to make a tin replacement cover for it one day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8589.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9474\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8589.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8589\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8589.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8589-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9475\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8591.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8591\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8591.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8591-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9476\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8599.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8599\" width=\"400\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8599.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8599-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9477\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8600\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8600-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8596.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9470\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8596.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8596\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8596.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8596-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8597.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9471\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8597.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8597\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8597.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8597-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8598.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9472\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8598.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8598\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8598.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8598-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9473\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8603.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8603\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8603.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8603-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This delicate porcelain teapot was made in China for export to Europe during the Qianlong reign (1711-1799.) It is decorated &#8220;en grisaille&#8221;, a pencil style drawing in black, with\u00a0touches of overglaze enamel of iron red and gilt. The European subject depicts a lady in her boudoir daintily clipping her toe nails as a male attendant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,16,120],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-chinese","tag-porcelain","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9562,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions\/9562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}