一对餐具 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一对餐具
品名（英）	Pair of andirons
入馆年号	1968年，68.141.155a, b
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Benjamin Pyne【1693 至 1727】
创作年份	公元 1697 - 公元 1698
创作地区
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	高 (each): 21 3/8 英寸 (54.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	火狗或 andirons——一个在英国保留用于手熨斗的术语，如扑克、钳子和铲子用于壁炉——有一个坚固的、凸起的投影，原木被放置在一个开放的、宽阔的烟囱壁炉中。这些安铁上的大银色正面在功能上不是必需的，而是在一个大房间里使用，并通过短卷轴腿和卷边平台的体积和强度来揭示它们的时期，该平台支撑着一个宏伟重量的花瓶，肩膀比底座宽得多，中央主体由一排高浮雕的鼠尾草叶尖活跃起来。当装饰时，由铁制成的火狗前面是黄铜，或者偶尔在黄铜上涂上珐琅。本杰明·派恩（Benjamin Pyne）的这些作品是两件罕见的银器。派恩在伦敦有很长的金匠生涯，他为市政当局和教堂所做的大部分工作都幸存下来;1715年，他被任命为汉诺威第一位国王乔治一世加冕的下属戈德史密斯，并于1725年当选为金匠公会的首席典狱长。派恩的作品通常以这些安迪恩中看到的庞大和简单为标志。
介绍（英）	Fire dogs, or andirons—a term that in England is reserved for hand irons such as the poker, tongs, and shovel for use on the hearth—have a strong, raised projection behind and across which logs are laid in an open, wide-chimney fireplace. The generous silver fronts on these andirons are not functionally necessary, but would have been used in a great room and reveal their period by the volume and strength of the short scroll legs and scrolled-edged platform, which supports a vase of grandiose weight, the shoulder much wider than the base and the central body enlivened by a row of acanthus-leaf tips in high relief. When ornamented, fire dogs made of iron were fronted with brass or, occasionally, enamel on brass. These pieces by Benjamin Pyne are two rare survivals in silver. Pyne had a long career as a goldsmith in London and much of his work for municipalities and churches has survived; in 1715, he was appointed Subordinate Goldsmith for the coronation of the first Hanoverian king, George I, and in 1725 he was elected Prime Warden of the goldsmiths' guild. Pyne's work is often marked by the massiveness and simplicity seen in these andirons.