{"id":977,"date":"2010-03-25T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2016-11-13T07:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T12:58:49","slug":"sailors-farewell-return-jug-c-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sailor&#8217;s Farewell &#038; Return&#8221; jug, c.1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prattware molded pottery jug from England with relief decoration and\u00a0rare &#8220;PRATT&#8221; incised mark on bottom. Measures 5&#8243; high. One side depicts a sailor bidding farewell to his lady.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21702.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4831\" title=\"IMG_2170\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21702.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21702-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the other side of the jug shows them\u00a0happily reunited upon his return home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4832\" title=\"IMG_2171\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21711.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21711-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plain metal handle replaces the original one, made of earthenware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4833\" title=\"IMG_2172\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21721.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21721-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is extremely rare to find a piece with an incised &#8220;PRATT&#8221; mark on bottom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4834\" title=\"IMG_2175\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21751.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21751-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A similar jug without an inventive repair shows what the original handle looked like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0873m1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-982\" title=\"0873m1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0873m1-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0873m1-278x300.jpg 278w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0873m1.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquepottery.co.uk\">John Howard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prattware molded pottery jug from England with relief decoration and\u00a0rare &#8220;PRATT&#8221; incised mark on bottom. Measures 5&#8243; high. One side depicts a sailor bidding farewell to his lady. And the other side of the jug shows them\u00a0happily reunited upon his return home. The plain metal handle replaces the original one, made of earthenware. It is [&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":[19,40,100,104],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","tag-english","tag-metal-handle","tag-pottery","tag-prattware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}