九灯吊灯 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	九灯吊灯
品名（英）	Nine-light chandelier
入馆年号	1977年，1977.83
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 1780 - 公元 1790
创作地区
分类	金属制品镀金青铜（Metalwork-Gilt Bronze）
尺寸	高: 36 5/8 英寸 (93 厘米)
介绍（中）	在煤气照明和电力之前的时代，蜡烛在照亮房屋内部方面发挥了重要作用。点燃的蜡烛的数量和类型表明了所有者的财富和地位。蜂蜡烛燃烧得更干净，闻起来比牛脂更令人愉快，而且相当昂贵。当代旅行者和日记家经常评论明亮空间的照明和成本。镀金青铜广泛用于不同类型的照明，从立烛台和烛台到悬挂的枝形吊灯和灯笼。这盏优雅的枝形吊灯有一个花瓶形的古铜琴身，配有镀金青铜凹槽颈部。从环绕花瓶的镀金青铜带上升起九根S形树枝，每根树枝上都装饰着滚动的鼠尾草叶图案，一个喇叭形滴水盘和一个蜡烛插座。枝形吊灯悬挂在镀金青铜链条上。这里使用的古铜色金属和镀金青铜的组合提供了十八世纪后期所青睐的那种丰富而复杂的对比。
介绍（英）	In the era before gas lighting and electricity, candles played a principal role in illuminating the interior of a house. The number and type of candles lit was an indication of the wealth and status of the owner. Beeswax candles burnt cleaner and smelled more pleasant than tallow and were rather expensive. Contemporary travelers and diarists frequently commented on the illumination and cost of brightly lit spaces. Gilt bronze was extensively used for different types of lighting ranging from standing candlesticks and candelabra to hanging chandeliers and lanterns. This graceful chandelier has a vase-shaped patinated-bronze body fitted with a fluted neck of gilt bronze. From a gilt-bronze band encircling the vase rise nine S-shaped branches, each decorated with scrolling acanthus-leaf motifs, a flaring drip pan and a candle socket. The chandelier is suspended from gilt-bronze chains. The combination of patinated metal and gilt bronze used here offered the kind of rich and sophisticated contrast favored during the late eighteenth century.