{"id":9664,"date":"2016-05-28T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2016-05-28T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T17:31:37","slug":"chinese-porcelain-sauce-boat-c-1760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9664","title":{"rendered":"Chinese porcelain sauce boat, c.1760"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This elongated Baroque serpentine form\u00a0silver shape sauce boat was made in China during the Qianlong period (1736-1796). It is made of porcelain and decorated in the Famille Rose palette, with hand painted\u00a0flowers, ducks, and garden stools\u00a0in pink, green, blue, and white\u00a0enamels with gilt highlights. It measures 9-3\/4 inches long by 3-5\/8 inches high.<\/p>\n<p>Well over 150 years ago when the original simple loop handle snapped off, a &#8220;china mender&#8221; fashioned a replacement\u00a0handle, which was riveted to the body. To help insulate the metal from the hot contents, rattan was wrapped and woven around the handle. This would have been one of a pair of matching sauce boats and was a part of a large dinner service. I wonder if it was separated from its mate\u00a0and other &#8220;perfect&#8221; serving pieces, as was often the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11000\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11000\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8430-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8430\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8430-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8430-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8430-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11001\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11001\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8431.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8431\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8431.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8431-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8431-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11002\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11002\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8433.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8433\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8433.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8433-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8433-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11003\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8437.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8437\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8437.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8437-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8437-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11004\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11004\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8439.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8439\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8439.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8439-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8439-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=11005\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11005\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8445.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8445\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8445.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8445-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8445-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original handle on this sauce boat, with identical form and similar decoration, gives you an idea of what the handle on my sauce boat would have looked like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=10998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10998\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chinese-porcelain-silver-shaped-sauceboat-qianlong.jpg\" alt=\"chinese-porcelain-silver-shaped-sauceboat-qianlong\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chinese-porcelain-silver-shaped-sauceboat-qianlong.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chinese-porcelain-silver-shaped-sauceboat-qianlong-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinegalleries.com\">Online Galleries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This elongated Baroque serpentine form\u00a0silver shape sauce boat was made in China during the Qianlong period (1736-1796). It is made of porcelain and decorated in the Famille Rose palette, with hand painted\u00a0flowers, ducks, and garden stools\u00a0in pink, green, blue, and white\u00a0enamels with gilt highlights. It measures 9-3\/4 inches long by 3-5\/8 inches high. Well over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[87,7,40,16,93],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sauce-boat","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\/9664","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=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11010,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/11010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}