费城Powel House的房间 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	费城Powel House的房间
品名（英）	Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia
入馆年号	1918年，18.87.1–.4
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1765 - 公元 1771
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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介绍（中）	位于费城南三街244号的房子是1765-66年由船长兼商人查尔斯·斯特德曼建造的。财富的减少迫使Stedman在房子完工后几乎立即将其出售，并于1769年8月2日由Samuel Powel以3150英镑的价格买下。波维尔是费城一个著名家庭的富有的年轻后裔。在费城学院（后来的宾夕法尼亚大学）接受教育后，他开始了为期七年的欧洲之旅。他在与伊丽莎白·威林结婚的五天前买下了位于南三街的房子，并几乎立即着手装修，以反映这对新人的财富、品味和优雅。该房间位于二楼的舞厅后面，最初的功能尚不清楚。它可能与舞厅一起用作点心；或者它可能是这所房子最好的卧室。Powel聘请了一些费城最优秀的工匠进行改造。房间的大理石壁炉环绕着，交叉的overmantle和绿绿色的叶子装饰反映了费城最新的格鲁吉亚风格。波维尔将继续担任英国统治下的费城最后一任市长，也是革命后的第一任市长。他经常招待乔治·华盛顿和约翰·亚当斯等名人，他们将这座装饰精美的房子称为"华丽的座位"
介绍（英）	The house at 244 South Third Street in Philadelphia from which this room was taken was constructed in 1765–66 by shipmaster and merchant Charles Stedman. Declining fortunes forced Stedman to sell the house almost immediately after its completion and it was purchased on August 2, 1769, by Samuel Powel for ₤3,150. Powel was the wealthy young scion of a notable Philadelphia family. Educated at the College of Philadelphia (later the University of Pennsylvania), he embarked on a seven-year-long Grand Tour of Europe. He purchased the house on South Third Street five days before he married Elizabeth Willing and almost immediately set about renovating it to reflect the new couple's wealth, taste, and refinement. Located behind the ballroom on the house's second floor, the room's initial function is unclear. It may have been used in conjunction with the ballroom for refreshments; or it may have been the house's best bedchamber. Powel employed some of Philadelphia's finest craftsman in the remodeling. The room's marble fireplace surrounds, the crossetted overmantle, and the verdigris-painted foliate ornament reflected the most up-to-date Georgian taste in Philadelphia. Powel would go on to serve as the last mayor of Philadelphia under British rule, and the first after the Revolution. He frequently entertained such luminaries as George Washington and John Adams, who referred to the house with its fine decoration as a "splendid seat."