{"id":15988,"date":"2018-11-01T21:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T02:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15988"},"modified":"2018-11-05T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:31:11","slug":"porcelain-rhinoceros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15988","title":{"rendered":"Porcelain Rhinoceros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15990\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15990\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Porcelain Rhinoceros\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15990\" data-wp-pid=\"15990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181101_159926.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porcelain Rhinoceros<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know a lot about this porcelain rhinoceros. In fact, I don&#8217;t know for certain that it&#8217;s made of porcelain. It&#8217;s some sort of ceramic and it&#8217;s white, which generally implies kaolin clay and porcelain. It&#8217;s glazed mostly green and it has an interesting pattern in the glaze, possibly from the firing technique. It gives the figurine a more natural appearance, because rhinoceroses are not a uniform color (or course, they aren&#8217;t green, either, but that&#8217;s another matter). There are currently five extant species of rhinoceros, two native to Africa (the white and the black rhino) and three to Asia, the Indian, the Javan, and the Sumatran rhinos. I&#8217;m going to go with this being an Indian rhinoceros (<em>Rhinoceros unicornis<\/em>) and guess that the figurine came from central Asia somewhere, but of course it could easily have been bought in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t know a lot about this porcelain rhinoceros. In fact, I don&#8217;t know for certain that it&#8217;s made of porcelain. It&#8217;s some sort of ceramic and it&#8217;s white, which generally implies kaolin clay and porcelain. It&#8217;s glazed mostly green and it has an interesting pattern in the glaze, possibly from the firing technique. It &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=15988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1336,940,699,1351,1353,1352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15991,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions\/15991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}