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品名（中）	已安装花瓶
品名（英）	Mounted vase
入馆年号	1971年，1971.206.22
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1745 - 公元 1755
创作地区
分类	金属制品镀金青铜（Metalwork-Gilt Bronze）
尺寸	高 23 3/8 x 宽 13 3/4 x 深 12 1/2 英寸 (59.4 x 34.9 x 31.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	高兴地注意到。大量最完美的旧瓷器，以及与之配套的底座似乎在价值上与之匹敌 -Antoine Nicolas Dézallier D’Argenville，Voyage pittoresque de Paris 在18世纪的法国，镀金青铜在那些负担得起的人的房子中发挥着重要的功能和装饰作用。镀金青铜被用于装饰吊灯、家具五金件、壁灯、烛台和枝形吊灯，它是亚洲和欧洲生产的瓷器的装饰。这个巨大的中国瓷瓶有着异常精致和雕塑般的镀金青铜底座，这是一个通过添加底座来实现转变的壮观例子。花瓶的轮廓发生了根本性的变化，大量弯曲的金属形状创造了法国洛可可风格的典型表达镀金青铜底座的成本相当高，而且这种规模的物品会非常昂贵。18世纪的拍卖目录表明，像这样的装裱花瓶经常出现在贵族收藏中，它们在拍卖时的价格表明，即使在装裱风格脱离时尚前沿之后，它们仍然保持着价值。在1782年拍卖Aumont公爵Louis-Marie Augustin的艺术藏品时，许多拍卖品要么是日本的，要么是中国的装裱瓷器，其中一些是路易十六以高价购买的 Epigraph。Dézallier D‘Argenville 1757年，第281页。
介绍（英）	With delight one notices . . . a very large number of pieces of old porcelain of the greatest perfection, [and] the mounts that accompany the pieces seem to rival them in value. — Antoine-Nicolas Dézallier d’Argenville, Voyage pittoresque de Paris In eighteenth-century France, gilt bronze played important functional and decorative roles in the houses of those who could afford it. Gilt bronze was employed for andirons, furniture hardware, wall lights, candelabra, and chandeliers, and it served as an embellishment for porcelain produced both in Asia and in Europe. This large Chinese porcelain vase with unusually elaborate and sculptural gilt-bronze mounts offers a spectacular example of the transformation that can be effected by the addition of mounts. The profile of the vase is radically changed, and the profusion of curving metal shapes creates a quintessential expression of French Rococo taste. The cost of gilt-bronze mounts was considerable, and an object of this scale would have been very expensive. Eighteenth-century auction catalogues indicate that mounted vases such as this were frequently found in aristocratic collections, and the prices they realized upon their sale demonstrate that they retained their value even after the style of their mounts had passed from the forefront of fashion. In the 1782 sale of the art collection of Louis-Marie-Augustin, duc d’Aumont, many of the lots offered were either Japanese or Chinese mounted porcelains, and a number of them were bought by Louis XVI for substantial sums. Epigraph. Dézallier d’Argenville 1757, p. 281.