{"id":1731,"date":"2011-12-22T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2011-12-22T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T10:50:32","slug":"satsuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"Satsuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law bought this vase from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikivillage.co.za\/maurits-lammers-antiques\">Maurits Lammers Antiques<\/a> close to Rademacher&#8217;s outside George. She was told that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satsuma_ware\">Satsuma<\/a>, but not knowing anything about pottery I don&#8217;t know whether this is the case or whether it&#8217;s authentic (the price seems to suggest it&#8217;s probably not).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1732\" title=\"vase1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase1-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase1-186x300.jpg 186w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase1-635x1024.jpg 635w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase1.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1733\" title=\"vase2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase2-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase2-246x300.jpg 246w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase2-841x1024.jpg 841w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vase2.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it doesn&#8217;t say &#8220;Japan&#8221; anywhere, which suggests it might be original, but it also doesn&#8217;t have the cross-in-circle on the bottom, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/203915\/Help-identify-Oriental-vase-Satsuma\">asked the nice people over at MetaFi<\/a>, so answers will undoubtedly be found :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law bought this vase from Maurits Lammers Antiques close to Rademacher&#8217;s outside George. She was told that it&#8217;s Satsuma, but not knowing anything about pottery I don&#8217;t know whether this is the case or whether it&#8217;s authentic (the price seems to suggest it&#8217;s probably not). Well, it doesn&#8217;t say &#8220;Japan&#8221; anywhere, which suggests it might be original, but it also doesn&#8217;t have the cross-in-circle on the bottom, so&#8230; Anyways, I&#8217;ve asked the nice people over at MetaFi, so answers will undoubtedly be found :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}