开口环胸针端子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	开口环胸针端子
品名（英）	Terminal for an Open Ring Brooch
入馆年号	2000年，2000.140
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 945 - 公元 955
创作地区
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	整体: 1 15/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 英寸, 1.378磅 (5 x 3.7 x 3.6 厘米, 625g)
介绍（中）	虽然是一个碎片，但这个胸针终端在艺术和技术上都是从维京人的伟大时代幸存下来的最好的作品之一。银色球体（现在略有凹痕）是空心铸造的，几乎整个表面都装饰着早期维京风格的niello，称为Jellinge / Mammen。凸起的扭曲金线在凸起的圆形金板上形成四叶形环结图案。两个相邻的三角形金面板上装满了螺柱，其中一个的中心有一个带有蛇形卷须的奖章。该终端与 1950 年和 1955 年在瑞典埃克托普的一个大型维京银囤中发现的胸针终端和针头具有相似之处，现在在斯德哥尔摩以西的厄勒布鲁兰斯地区博物馆。与本品一样，埃克托普囤积的大部分由银组成，在维京时期和之后，这些银被分解成碎片，这是货币兑换的常见做法。这枚豪华胸针被重建为原始形式，将是维京欧洲已知最大、最重的胸针之一。显然，它的第一任主人是一个重要的人物。
介绍（英）	Although a fragment, this brooch terminal is artistically and technically one of the finest works to survive from the great age of the Vikings. The silver sphere (now slightly dented) was hollow cast, and virtually its entire surface is decorated with niello in an early Viking style known as Jellinge/Mammen. Raised, twisted gold wire forms a quatrefoil ring-knot pattern on a raised, circular gold panel. Two adjacent triangular gold panels are filled with studs, and one has a medallion in its center with serpentine tendrils. The terminal bears typological and aesthetic similarites to a brooch terminal and pinhead found in a large Viking silver hoard at Eketorp, Sweden, in 1950 and 1955, which are now in the regional Örebro Lans Museum, west of Stockholm. As with the present item, much of the Eketorp hoard consists of silver that, during and after the Viking period, was broken into pieces, a common practice for monetary exchange. Reconstructed to its original form, this deluxe brooch would be one of the largest and heaviest known from Viking Europe; clearly its first owner was an important figure.