钻头凸台 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	钻头凸台
品名（英）	Bit Boss
入馆年号	1942年，42.50.201
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1550 - 公元 1650
创作地区	原产国: 意大利（Country of Origin: Italy）
分类	马术器械钻头（Equestrian Equipment-Bits）
尺寸	直径 3 英寸 (7.6 厘米); 重 6.4 盎司 (75 g)
介绍（中）	这个位老板的中心展示了戈尔贡美杜莎的脸，边缘装饰着七个半身像形状的投影，穿着 16 世纪的褶皱领和罗马风格的披风。这个重复的人物很可能是西班牙国王菲利普二世，在莱昂内和蓬佩奥·莱奥尼的几幅肖像中都有这样的代表。由于他的胡须很短，这幅肖像似乎更受莱昂内·莱奥尼 1549 年制作的奖章的启发，当时仍然是王子的菲利普第一次访问他的德国和佛兰芒领土，以及安东尼斯·莫尔在 1557 年绘制的肖像。意大利青铜创始人也使用与美杜莎头部相同的设计作为装饰性斑块，用于装饰包括工作人员武器在内的几种类型的物体（见14.25.354）。这些老板和牌匾似乎是进口到西班牙的，因为在许多17世纪的西班牙迫击炮上也发现了同一个美杜莎的头（青铜创始人经常使用从预先存在的奖牌或牌匾中提取的模具来装饰他们的迫击炮或铃铛）。
介绍（英）	The center of this bit boss displays the face of the gorgon Medusa, circled by a rim adorned with seven projections in the shape of human busts wearing 16th-century ruff collar and a Roman-style mantle. This repeated figure is likely to be King Philip II of Spain, represented as such in several portraits made by Leone and Pompeo Leoni. Because of his short beard, this portrait seems to have been more particularly inspired by the medal made in 1549 by Leone Leoni when Philip, still a prince, visited his German and Flemish territories for the first time, as well as from his portrait painted by Antonis Mor in 1557. Italian bronze founders also used the same design of Medusa’s head for ornamental plaquettes, used for adorning several types of objects including staff weapons (see 14.25.354). These bosses and plaquettes seem to have been imported to Spain as the same Medusa's head is also found on many 17th-century Spanish mortars (bronze founders regularly used molds taken from pre-existing medals or plaquettes for decorating their mortars or bells).