一对花瓶 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一对花瓶
品名（英）	Pair of vases
入馆年号	1998年，1998.13.1, .2
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Nikolai Stepanovich Vereshchagin【1795 至 1813】
创作年份	公元 1795 - 公元 1800
创作地区
分类	天然物质象牙（Natural Substances-Ivory）
尺寸	8 5/8 × 3 × 3 英寸 (21.9 × 7.6 × 7.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	俄罗斯的骨雕艺术与偏远的北部捕鲸城市阿尔汉格尔斯克密不可分。缺乏学术训练和他在海关办公室的卑微地位并不是最广为人知的阿尔汉格尔斯克骨雕师尼古拉·斯捷潘诺维奇·韦列夏金的障碍，他的花瓶被委托作为国家的大使礼物和沙皇亚历山大一世的个人收藏。这些新古典主义风格的每个例子的椭圆形主体都装饰有ajouré（穿孔）装饰，四个浮雕圆形奖章，以及一个由阿特拉斯人物覆盖的顶端。充满活力的弯曲花茎的设计类似于 17 世纪俄罗斯书籍插图中的装饰品，而四个元素（每个奖章一个）的灵感来自自 17 世纪以来在俄罗斯流传的"法兰克"版画或彼得大帝于 1703 年在阿姆斯特丹委托的"符号和标志之书"中的图像。这对优雅的花瓶是Vereshchagin作品的一个特别好的例子。其形态的"高贵而沉稳的简约"和精致的雕刻与人体渲染中的一些僵硬融为一体，这只会为这件艺术品增添一种柔和、亲密的魅力。
介绍（英）	The art of bone-carving in Russia is inseparably linked with the remote northern whaling city of Arkhangel'sk. Lack of academic training and his humble position in a customs office were not impediments to the most widely recognized Arkhangel'sk bone carver, Nikolai Stepanovich Vereshchagin, whose vases were commissioned as ambassadorial gifts of state and for the personal collection of Czar Alexander I. The oval body of each of these examples in the Neoclassical style is decorated with an ajouré (pierced) decoration, four circular medallions in relief, and a finial surmounted by the figure of Atlas. The design of the energetically curving floral stalks resembles ornament found in seventeenth-century Russian book illustrations, and the Four Elements–one in each medallion–were inspired either by the "Frankish" prints circulating in Russia since the seventeenth century or by images from the "Book of Symbols and Emblems" commissioned by Peter the Great in 1703 in Amsterdam. This elegant pair of vases is a particularly fine example of the work of Vereshchagin. "The noble and calm simplicity" of their form and the exquisite carving blend well with some stiffness in the rendering of the human bodies, which only adds to this artwork an air of soft, intimate charm.