{"id":9826,"date":"2016-02-15T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9826"},"modified":"2016-03-12T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T19:22:51","slug":"mandarin-mug-to-jug-transformation-c-1840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9826","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin mug to jug transformation, c.1840"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of the more unusual transformation pieces I have in my collection. Much like the butterfly painted on the reverse side,\u00a0it began life\u00a0as one thing\u00a0and\u00a0transformed into something entirely different. I\u00a0call it a\u00a0metamorphosis mug. Made between 1830 and 1850, this Chinese export porcelain mug in the Famille Rose Mandarin palette\u00a0was\u00a0converted to a milk jug with the addition of a silver spout. It has two decorated panels, one with a courtyard scene and the other with images of exotic birds, butterflies, fruits and flowers. It stands 4-1\/2 inches high and is 5-1\/2 inches wide from handle to spout.<\/p>\n

The silver mount has an 1871 London\u00a0hallmark. Although I have many examples of silver spouts, handles and lids, it is rare to find hallmarks that date and place a\u00a0repair. I particularly like the ornate sparrow beak spout.<\/p>\n

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This mug was happy being a mug and felt no need to spread its wings and become a jug.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Mimi’s Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of the more unusual transformation pieces I have in my collection. Much like the butterfly painted on the reverse side,\u00a0it began life\u00a0as one thing\u00a0and\u00a0transformed into something entirely different. I\u00a0call it a\u00a0metamorphosis mug. Made between 1830 and 1850, this Chinese export porcelain mug in the Famille Rose Mandarin palette\u00a0was\u00a0converted to a milk jug […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,122],"tags":[7,86,16,17],"class_list":["post-9826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jug","category-mugtankard","tag-chinese","tag-mandarin","tag-porcelain","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","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=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10662,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}