{"id":816,"date":"2012-03-16T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T08:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2013-01-23T22:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T03:29:35","slug":"unknown-jadeite-hen-on-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Jadeite Hen on Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hens on nests are pretty common. \u00a0I started my mini-collection as a fluke. \u00a0Bought one&#8230;.it looked pretty on a white shelf&#8230;.bought another for company&#8230;and now I have a few in different shapes and colours. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know much about them. \u00a0Some are vintage and some are not. \u00a0This piece is jadeite. \u00a0It is not marked so I have no idea of its provenance. \u00a0I bought it at my favourite, local antique shop, Under the Toadstool. \u00a0Last weekend I was in there and the owner had a very large piece (mine is medium sized). \u00a0I was tempted, but was good and resisted. \u00a0There are only so many hens on baskets that one woman can own. \u00a0Marie did tell me that she has had a recent run on them with one woman buying 5 or 6 for her husband&#8217;s collection! \u00a0I don&#8217;t keep anything in mine, but I gather folks use them as serving pieces\/butter crocks, etc. \u00a0What interests me about them is the variation in the nests. \u00a0All types of weaves and edging.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-798\" title=\"038\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/038-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/038-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/038-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=816\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hens on nests are pretty common. \u00a0I started my mini-collection as a fluke. \u00a0Bought one&#8230;.it looked pretty on a white &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=816\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[96,95,127],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unknown","tag-animal","tag-hen","tag-nest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}