{"id":19557,"date":"2015-11-21T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=19557"},"modified":"2015-11-21T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T11:16:01","slug":"celadon-of-bowls-and-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/celadon-of-bowls-and-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Celadon: of bowls and boots"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sat 21 November 2015<\/div>\n

I’ve always had a thing for dusty blue-green shades\u00a0and\u00a0today I learned a beautiful word for one of those colours:\u00a0celadon. \u00a0While at the Potter’s Market this morning, John the Potter<\/a>\u00a0commented on my boots, saying he’d never seen a pair of “celadon Dr Martens”. Seeing my blank expression\u00a0he explained the origin of the word to me – back in the day the ceramics world was obsessed and overrun with blue and white porcelain but the French decided to start using\u00a0a different colour\u00a0from China, a light greeny turquoise. Apparently it matched the signature shade\u00a0of a French ballet dancer whose name was Celadon and so the name stuck.<\/p>\n

Reading the history on Wiki<\/a>, it appears John used some artistic license in his tale – naturally\u00a0the story is a little more complicated and there appear to be multiple theories on the origin of name, all of which I like, but I especially\u00a0love the romanticism and whimsy\u00a0of that French dancer story.<\/p>\n

\"Bowls<\/a><\/p>\n

– – –<\/p>\n

Potter’s Market<\/a> \u00a0| \u00a0 John the Potter<\/a> \u00a0 | \u00a0 Docs from That Shoe Lady<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sat 21 November 2015 I’ve always had a thing for dusty blue-green shades\u00a0and\u00a0today I learned a beautiful word for one of those colours:\u00a0celadon. \u00a0While at the Potter’s Market this morning, John the Potter\u00a0commented on my boots, saying he’d never seen … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19561,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions\/19561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}