废除死刑的Jug - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	废除死刑的Jug
品名（英）	Abolitionist Jug
入馆年号	2020年，2020.106
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1815 - 公元 1825
创作地区
分类	陶瓷陶器（Ceramics-Pottery）
尺寸	4 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3 英寸 (11.4 × 14 × 7.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	虽然形式谦逊，但像这个水壶这样的光泽釉面和转移印刷陶瓷物品是政治变革的强大载体。反奴隶制的信息传达到了英国社会的不同阶层。此外，投手的日常形式表明，妇女作为消费者在家庭领域在公开反对奴隶贸易方面发挥着重要作用。水壶一侧被释放的奴隶的图像参考了最著名的废奴主义陶瓷作品，即韦奇伍德的反奴隶制奖章，该奖章于 1787 年制作，以纪念当年在伦敦成立的废除奴隶贸易协会。威廉·考珀（William Cowper）写下了废奴主义诗《黑人的抱怨》（The Negro's Complaint），摘录在1788年的另一边。韦奇伍德的奖章上有一个跪着的被奴役的黑人，戴着锁链，上面写着"我不是男人和兄弟吗？"在他上方浮雕。光泽器壶改变了韦奇伍德奖章上的词序，用一句话说："我不是男人和兄弟吗？虽然这个水壶是在韦奇伍德的奖章大约三十年后制造的，但废除奴隶制仍然是一个积极的事业：英国于 1807 年颁布了禁止奴隶贸易的奴隶贸易法，但直到 1833 年的奴隶制废除法案才完全废除奴隶制的做法。
介绍（英）	Though humble in form, luster-glazed and transfer-printed ceramics objects such as this jug served as powerful vehicles for political change. Antislavery messages reached different classes of British society. Moreover, the quotidian form of the pitcher pointed to the important role that women played as consumers in the domestic sphere in voicing public opposition to the slave trade. The image of the freed slave on one side of the jug references the most famous piece of abolitionist ceramics, Wedgwood’s antislavery medallion, produced in 1787 to commemorate the establishment of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade that year in London. William Cowper penned the abolitionist poem, “The Negro’s Complaint,” excerpted on the other side of the jug in 1788. Wedgwood’s medallion features a kneeling enslaved black man in chains, with the words “Am I not a man and a brother?” impressed in relief above him. The lusterware jug changes the word order found on Wedgwood’s medallion somewhat with the phrase, “Am not I a man and a brother?.” Though this jug was made some thirty years after Wedgwood’s medallion, abolition remained an active cause: Britain enacted the Slave Trade Act in 1807 prohibiting the slave trade, but did not completely abolish the practice of slavery until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.