茶壶 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	茶壶
品名（英）	Teapot
入馆年号	2017年，2017.157.3
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Tiffany & Co.【1837 至现在】
创作年份	公元 1880
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 纽约, 纽约（Made in: United States, New York, New York）
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尺寸	5 1/2 英寸 (14 厘米)
介绍（中）	在十九世纪下半叶，蒂芙尼公司（Tiffany & Co.）作为美国领先的银匠公司以及有影响力的国际潮流引领者和时尚缔造者而声名鹊起。1870 年代和 1880 年代见证了公司前所未有的创新和创造力。日本口味的银是蒂芙尼在这些年中最受欢迎和最著名的作品之一。事实上，蒂芙尼公司在1878年巴黎世界博览会上获得了银器大奖，评委们称赞了该公司日本式银器的独创性和精湛技艺。蒂芙尼银器部门的负责人爱德华·摩尔（Edward C. Moore，1827-1891 年）收集了大量日本物品，以激发他的设计师和工匠的灵感。他们生产的银币没有复制日本模型，而是将日本的审美敏感性和技术融入到新鲜和完全创新的设计中。这款茶具的不对称构图、鱼和爬行动物的异想天开渲染，以及使用混合金属来实现鲜明的对比，反映了蒂芙尼的设计师和银匠将日本设计原则和技术内化的程度。他们的日本式银器促使英国设计师克里斯托弗·德莱瑟（Christopher Dresser，1834-1904）在给公司的一封信中写道："据我所知，在过去的几年里，没有一个银匠在艺术方面取得了应用于他们行业的进步，你......你占据了作为世界上第一位银匠的自豪地位。
介绍（英）	During the second half of the nineteenth century, Tiffany & Co. rose to prominence as the leading American silversmithing firm and an influential international trendsetter and tastemaker. The 1870s and 1880s witnessed unprecedented innovation and creativity at the firm. Silver in the Japanese taste was among the most popular and celebrated work produced at Tiffany’s during these years. Indeed, Tiffany & Co. won the Grand Prize for silverware at the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle, with the judges citing the originality and virtuosity of the firm’s Japanesque silver. Edward C. Moore (1827-1891), the head of Tiffany’s silver division, assembled a significant collection of Japanese objects to inspire his designers and craftsmen. The silver they produced did not copy Japanese models but, instead, incorporated Japanese aesthetic sensibilities and techniques into fresh and wholly innovative designs. This tea set’s asymmetrical compositions, whimsical renderings of fish and reptiles, and use of mixed metals to achieve striking contrasts reflect the extent to which Tiffany’s designers and silversmiths had internalized Japanese design principles and techniques. Their Japanesque silver prompted the English designer Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) to write in a letter to the firm, "No silversmith, that I know, has made the progress in art as applied to their industry in the last few years, that you have….you occupy the proud position of being the first silversmith of the world."