花瓶 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	花瓶
品名（英）	Vase
入馆年号	2016年，2016.533.6
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Wood and Hughes【1845 至 1899】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1863
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 纽约, 纽约（Made in: United States, New York, New York）
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尺寸	9 5/8 × 4 7/8 英寸, 16.127 Troy Ounces (24.4 × 12.4 厘米, 501.6g)
介绍（中）	19世纪中期，新兴的中产阶级对精致奢侈品的需求不断增加，推动了美国白银行业创造力的蓬勃发展。银匠们投入了大量的时间和创造性的精力来创造各种各样的新设计和图案。在19世纪60年代和19世纪70年代，以古董硬币和浮雕为灵感，装饰有肖像徽章的银制餐具广受欢迎，几乎每个美国银匠都生产自己专有的"徽章"图案。纽约Wood and Hughes公司是美国最好、最大的白银制造商之一，在19世纪下半叶创造了许多餐具图案，包括几种不同的奖章图案，其中一种被修改为用作花瓶的把手。花瓶的把手和瓶身上精致的古典头证明了人们对古典世界艺术和装饰词汇的普遍迷恋，以及Wood and Hughes作为领先的银饰公司和品味创造者的地位。
介绍（英）	The mid-nineteenth century witnessed an efflorescence of creativity in the American silver industry, fueled by the burgeoning middle class’s increasing demand for refined luxury goods. Silversmiths devoted considerable time and creative energy to generating an endless variety of new designs and patterns. During the 1860s and 1870s silver flatware ornamented with portrait medallions inspired by antique coins and cameos enjoyed widespread popularity, with virtually every American silversmith producing their own proprietary "medallion" pattern. The New York firm of Wood and Hughes, one of the finest and largest manufacturers of American silver, created numerous flatware patterns during the second half of the nineteenth century, including several different medallion patterns, one of which has been modified to serve as the handles of this vase. Together the handles and the exquisitely chased classical head on the vase’s body attest to the prevailing fascination with art and decorative vocabulary of the classical world and Wood and Hughes’s position as a leading silver firm and tastemaker.