{"id":141,"date":"1999-11-18T16:10:47","date_gmt":"1999-11-18T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/?p=141"},"modified":"2020-11-13T00:49:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:49:10","slug":"dear-editor-saucer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/dear-editor-saucer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Editor &#8211; Saucer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Sir, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I have in my possession a small, crudely painted, blue and white shallow dish. It looks Chinese, but the porcelain isn\u2019t the right texture. There are three little cannon balls in the pattern and trees with a pagoda and a hut on islands and on the left of one is a tiny fisherman, sitting fishing. Although it was covered in soil when found, it is in excellent condition. Can you please tell me what it is and if it is valuable? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pamela<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Address Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Dear Pamela,<br \/>\nPlease, hold the bowl up to a strong light. Does the porcelain look slightly greenish with the light behind it? If it does, you may have a very rare pattern on what sounds like an early Worcester Saucer. The presence of the fisherman adds a great deal of rarity to the cannonball pattern. I will put my full report up on the website for you once I have had your reply, but I think it safe to tell you that there is a possibility your piece is worth at least \u00a3250, possibly a lot more. Whatever you do with the saucer, please make sure that you send photos of it to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Museum_of_Royal_Worcester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dyson Perrins Museum<\/a>. They might make you an offer but, at the very least, they will be able to authenticate it for you.<br \/>\nAll the best,<br \/>\nThe Editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sir, I have in my possession a small, crudely painted, blue and white shallow dish. It looks Chinese, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/dear-editor-saucer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Editor &#8211; Saucer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-porcelain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquesreview.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}