Halberd公司 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Halberd公司
品名（英）	Halberd
入馆年号	1914年，14.25.377
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1605 - 公元 1655
创作地区	原产国: 法国（Country of Origin: France）
分类	带柄武器（Shafted Weapons）
尺寸	长 90 英寸 (228.6 厘米); 长 of head 18 1/8 英寸 (46 厘米); 宽 6 5/16 英寸 (16 厘米); 重 3 磅. 12.7 盎司 (1720.8 g)
介绍（中）	精心刺穿的戟头主体由对称的花卉卷轴组成，中心有鸢尾花;一面刻有新月的凹形斧刃，另一面是急剧向下翻转的喙。一个狭窄的矛刃通过环形装饰在顶端连接，中心环镶嵌黄铜，还刻有叶子卷轴。管状插座通过环形装饰条连接到刀片上，两个靠近上端，一个在底部，较大的两个环镶嵌有黄铜。木轴上钉满了钉子，整体涂成黑色，末端是铁锥。瑞士的粗壮战斗戟（见第14.25.51号）在十六世纪转变为整个欧洲宫殿卫兵的礼仪武器，到十七世纪已被军方采用，作为中士军衔的象征性武器。这把戟可能由中士携带，但其精心穿孔和雕刻设计的质量表明它是一件特制的物品，而不是常见的军事问题之一。在殖民地的美国，士官也携带装饰性穿孔和雕刻的戟，美国制造的戟是在这种类型的欧洲例子之后复制的。装饰这件作品的厚重叶子卷轴反映了 17 世纪的巴洛克风格，矛刃上的叶状带状带状让人想起老让·贝兰（Jean Bérain，1637-1711 年）的装饰品。装饰的总体轻盈和精致，但没有洛可可的暗示，表明年代稍晚，也许是十八世纪上半叶。
介绍（英）	The elaborately pierced body of the halberd head consists of symmetrical floral scrolls, with a fleur-de-lis in its center; one side has a concave axe blade engraved with a crescent moon, and on the opposite side a sharply down-turned beak. A narrow spear blade is attached at the apex by ring moldings, the center ring inlaid with brass, and is also engraved with foliate scrolls. The tubular socket is attached to the blade by ring moldings, two near the upper end, one at the base, the larger two rings inlaid with brass. The shaft of wood is studded with nails and painted black overall, and it terminates in an iron cone. The stout fighting halberd of the Swiss (see acc. no. 14.25.51) was transformed in the sixteenth century into the ceremonial weapon of palace guards throughougt Europe, and by the seventeenth century had been adopted by the military as a symbolic weapon of rank for sergeants. This halberd may have been carried by a sergeant, but the quality of its delicately pierced and engraved design suggest that it was a specially made piece rather than one of common military issue. Decoratively pierced and engraved halberds were also carried by noncommissioned officers in colonial America, the American-made halberds being copied after European examples of this type. The heavy foliate scrolls that decorate this piece reflect the seventeenth-century baroque taste, and the foliated strapwork on the spear blade recalls the ornament of Jean Bérain the Elder (1637–1711). The general lightness and delicacy of the decoration, but without a hint of the rococo, suggest a slightly later dating, perhaps to the first quarter of the eighteenth century.