{"id":9964,"date":"2015-10-03T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2015-10-03T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:04:30","slug":"chinese-dollhouse-sugar-bowl-c-1690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=9964","title":{"rendered":"Chinese dollhouse sugar bowl, c.1690"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Chinese export porcelain dollhouse miniature with blue underglaze floral decoration dates from the Kangxi period (1662-1722) and stands nearly 2 inches tall. Contrary to popular belief, miniatures like\u00a0this\u00a0were displayed in doll houses owned by wealthy adults\u00a0and were not intended to be played with by children.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly,\u00a0this little gem was not always\u00a0a sugar bowl but actually started life as a baluster form vase. After it took a tumble, a silversmith kept\u00a0the surviving middle section, added a minuscule\u00a0silver lid, handles and base, and voila&#8230;a sugar bowl was born. A tiny Dutch hallmark in the shape of a sword can be seen on the bottom of the base, dating it to\u00a01814-1905. The small sword mark was\u00a0used on silver pieces too small to accommodate\u00a0full hallmarks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10017\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8952.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8952\" width=\"400\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8952.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8952-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8947.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10015\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8947.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8947\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8947.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8947-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10014\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8951.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8951\" width=\"400\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8951.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8951-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10016\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8949.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8949\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8949.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8949-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shown below is an intact miniature vase, standing just 2-1\/2&#8243; tall. It appears that the middle section on a similar vase was used to make the sugar bowl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_81181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9981\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_81181.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8118\" width=\"400\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_81181.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_81181-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Chinese export porcelain dollhouse miniature with blue underglaze floral decoration dates from the Kangxi period (1662-1722) and stands nearly 2 inches tall. Contrary to popular belief, miniatures like\u00a0this\u00a0were displayed in doll houses owned by wealthy adults\u00a0and were not intended to be played with by children. Surprisingly,\u00a0this little gem was not always\u00a0a sugar bowl but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[15,7,13,17],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sugar-bowl","tag-blue-white","tag-chinese","tag-miniature","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","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=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10351,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions\/10351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}