演示文稿花瓶 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	演示文稿花瓶
品名（英）	Presentation Vase
入馆年号	1982年，1982.4a, b
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Thomas Fletcher【1787 至 1866】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1824
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 宾夕法尼亚, 费城（Made in: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia）
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尺寸	整体: 23 7/16 x 20 1/8 x 15 1/8 英寸 (59.5 x 51.1 x 38.4 厘米); 410 盎司 5 dwt. (12760 g) Lip: 直径 12 3/4 英寸 (32.4 厘米) Cover: 5 5/8 x 12 3/4 英寸 (14.3 x 32.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	在纽约市，十九世纪初最重要的事件是伊利运河的开凿。建成后，纽约很容易进入该国内陆，其商业霸权也得到了保障。1825年，一群纽约商人委托一对纪念花瓶赠送给纽约州州长德威特·克林顿（1769-1828），以感谢他对运河建设的推动。尸体和把手是以著名的罗马瓮Warwick Vase为模型的，该瓮于1770年在蒂沃利的哈德良别墅附近发掘。托马斯·弗莱彻（Thomas Fletcher）为这些花瓶设计的获奖作品以运河沿线的寓言人物和美国景色为特色。在这个花瓶的正面，Mercury（商业）和Ceres（农业）的雕像位于奥尔巴尼运河的船闸和水池的侧面；背面描绘了赫拉克勒斯（力量）和密涅瓦（智慧）与罗切斯特的渡槽和热纳西河的瀑布。在这对雕像的正面，代表名人和历史的人物从侧面俯瞰莫霍克河的科霍瀑布；背面描绘了一位女性（大量）和一位美洲原住民，以及莫霍克小瀑布。每个花瓶的盖子上都有一个美国鹰饰这些花瓶的标志是托马斯·弗莱彻和西德尼·加德纳的合作，他们于1811年从波士顿搬到费城，以寻求更大的商业成功。优秀的企业家，他们很快成为美国领先的展示银供应商，并零售各种进口商品，如黄铜、餐具和灯具。Fletcher和Gardiner是19世纪越来越普遍的大型城市公司的代表。
介绍（英）	In New York City, the most significant event of the early nineteenth century was the creation of the Erie Canal. Upon its completion, New York gained easy access to the country's interior, and its commercial hegemony was secured. A group of New York merchants commissioned a pair of monumental vases to be presented in 1825 to New York's governor DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), in gratitude for his promotion of the canal's construction. The bodies and handles are modeled on the famous Roman urn known as the Warwick Vase, which was excavated in 1770 near Hadrian's villa at Tivoli. Thomas Fletcher's competition-winning design for these vases features a scheme of allegorical figures and American vistas along the route of the canal. On the front of this vase, the figures of Mercury (commerce) and Ceres (agriculture) flank a view of the canal's guard lock and basin at Albany; on the back, Hercules (strength) and Minerva (wisdom) are depicted with the aqueduct at Rochester and the falls of the Genesee River. On the front of its pair, figures representing Fame and History flank a view of the Mohawk River's Cohoes Falls; on the back, a female figure (plenty) and a Native American are depicted with the Little Falls of the Mohawk. The cover of each vase is surmounted by an American eagle finial. The vases are marked by the partnership of Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, who relocated from Boston to Philadelphia in 1811 in search of greater commercial success. Excellent entrepreneurs, they soon became the leading American supplier of presentation silver, as well as retailing a wide range of imported goods, such as brass, cutlery, and lighting fixtures. Fletcher and Gardiner are representative of the large urban firms that became increasingly common during the nineteenth century.