九光烛台 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	九光烛台
品名（英）	Nine-light candelabrum
入馆年号	1960年，60.55.10a–s
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Paul Storr【1771 至 1844】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1835 - 公元 1836
创作地区
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	整体 (confirmed): 40 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 27 1/2 英寸 (102.9 × 69.9 × 69.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个巨大的中心放在一个三角形的底座上，每个角落都有倾斜的侧面和儿童的形象，上升到一个三角形平台上，用螺栓固定着烛台。三个巨大的滚动脚支撑着第二个平台，从平台上升起一根轴，支撑着三根树枝，每根树枝都有三个蜡烛臂，总共形成九盏灯。从蜡烛臂中间升起的是一组大卷轴，上面矗立着赫伯特家族的徽章——一只翅膀展开的飞龙。烛台是为彭布罗克和蒙哥马利的第十二代伯爵罗伯特·赫伯特制作的；他的首字母缩写PM由底座两侧的伯爵冠所代表。威文在英国纹章学中并不罕见。这是一个神话中的怪物，有两只鹰的腿，末端是大爪子，一个龙头，蝙蝠般的翅膀，一条细长的尾巴，末端是窄点烛台是18世纪洛可可风格第二阶段的一个例子，在这件作品制作前近一个世纪，这种风格在不对称的使用方面达到了最大的发展。这里的区别在于不对称的、较小的单元的对称组合，如卷轴和大叶形式，以及两个小丘比特，他们似乎在螺旋路径上追求一个小普赛克，他拿着一朵玫瑰登上中心轴。除了宏伟的规模和许多不同元素的存在之外，还有抛光的镀金表面与其他哑光区域交替出现，或者用格子板等装饰物打破。
介绍（英）	This immense centerpiece rests on a triangular base with sloping sides and figures of children at each corner, rising to a triangular platform to which is bolted the candelabrum proper. Three substantial scrolling feet support a second platform from which rises a shaft supporting three branches, each with three candle arms—creating nine lights overall. Rising through the middle of the candle arms are a group of large scrolls on which stands the crest of the Herbert family—a wyvern with outspread wings. The candelabrum was made for Robert Herbert, twelfth earl of Pembroke and Montgomery; his initials, PM, are ensigned by an earl's coronet on the sides of the base. The wyvern is not uncommon in British heraldry. It is a mythical monster with two eagle's legs ending in large talons, a dragon's head, batlike wings, and a long tapering tail ending in a narrow point. The candelabrum is an example of a second phase of the Rococo—that style of the eighteenth century which reached its greatest development in the use of asymmetry almost a century before this piece was made. Here the difference is in the symmetrical combination of asymmetrical, smaller units, such as scrolls and large leaf forms, as well as the two little cupids who seem to be pursuing on a spiral path one little Psyche, who ascends the central shaft holding a rose. Added to the grand scale and presence of many diverse elements are the brilliantly burnished gilt surfaces alternating with other areas that are matte or broken up with ornament such as trellis panels.