{"id":9494,"date":"2015-10-31T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2015-10-31T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T21:01:11","slug":"wu-shuang-pu-cup-c-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9494","title":{"rendered":"Wu Shuang Pu cup, c.1870"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Chinese porcelain cup is decorated in cobalt blue with a\u00a0Peerless Hero figure, stacked bottles and\u00a0calligraphy taken\u00a0from Wu Shuang Pu (Table of Peerless Heroes), a late 17th century book of woodcut prints by Jin Guliang. The cup measures 2-3\/4 inches high, with an opening diameter of 3-1\/2 inches.<\/p>\n<p>After the cup\u00a0broke\u00a0in half, over 100 years ago, it was repaired with pairs of metal staples set in cement. Judging from\u00a0the flattened lozenge-shaped\u00a0staples made from repurposed wire, this repair was most likely done\u00a0in the Middle East where itinerant china menders set up shop directly in the streets. But even with the doubled up staples and binding\u00a0cement, more than a\u00a0few staples have jumped ship, leaving just tiny empty holes as a reminder of its time in the china mender&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8616.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9496\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8616.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8616\" width=\"400\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8616.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8616-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8624.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8624\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8624.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8624-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9499\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8621.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8621\" width=\"400\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8621.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8621-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8619.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9498\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8619.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8619\" width=\"400\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8619.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8619-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9497\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8618.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8618\" width=\"400\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8618.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8618-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9495\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8628.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8628\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8628.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8628-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Chinese porcelain cup is decorated in cobalt blue with a\u00a0Peerless Hero figure, stacked bottles and\u00a0calligraphy taken\u00a0from Wu Shuang Pu (Table of Peerless Heroes), a late 17th century book of woodcut prints by Jin Guliang. The cup measures 2-3\/4 inches high, with an opening diameter of 3-1\/2 inches. After the cup\u00a0broke\u00a0in half, over 100 years [&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":[15,7,16,120],"class_list":["post-9494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cup","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-porcelain","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","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=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10424,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions\/10424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}