{"id":9511,"date":"2014-11-28T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2016-11-17T06:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T11:44:41","slug":"chinese-imari-helmut-jug-c-1750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9511","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Imari helmet jug, c.1750"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This porcelain helmut-shaped cream jug, decorated in the Imari palette of blue, iron red and gilt, stands 4-1\/4&#8243; tall. It was made in China during the Qianlong period (1736-1795.) The hand painted decoration of floral sprigs and\u00a0alternating blue panels suggests it was made for export to the Persian market.<\/p>\n<p>At one\u00a0point in its early life, the original porcelain handle snapped off, leaving it impossible\u00a0to gracefully\u00a0pass the cream at the dining\u00a0table. It was brought to a tinker or metalsmith who fashioned this ornate replacement handle, possibly repurposed from an existing silver item. The delicate\u00a0silver replacement\u00a0is more ornate\u00a0than the original branch-form handle, but adds just the right touch of class and whimsy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9512\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8604.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8604\" width=\"400\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8604.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8604-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9513\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8606.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8606\" width=\"400\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8606.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8606-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8607.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9514\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8607.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8607\" width=\"400\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8607.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8607-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9515\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8611\" width=\"400\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8611-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9516\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8613.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8613\" width=\"400\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8613.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8613-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The center jug, with similar form and decoration, shows what the original handle on my jug might have looked like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jugx3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9604\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jugx3.jpg\" alt=\"jugx3\" width=\"400\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jugx3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jugx3-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\">Christie&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This porcelain helmut-shaped cream jug, decorated in the Imari palette of blue, iron red and gilt, stands 4-1\/4&#8243; tall. It was made in China during the Qianlong period (1736-1795.) The hand painted decoration of floral sprigs and\u00a0alternating blue panels suggests it was made for export to the Persian market. At one\u00a0point in its early life, [&hellip;]<\/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":[7,29,40,16,76],"class_list":["post-9511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-chinese","tag-imari","tag-metal-handle","tag-porcelain","tag-qianlong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511","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=9511"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11613,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions\/11613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}