刺绣椅背 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	刺绣椅背
品名（英）	Embroidered Chair Back
入馆年号	2003年，2003.480
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Mehitable Starkey【1739 至 1839】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1755 - 公元 1765
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 马萨诸塞州, 波士顿（Made in: United States, Massachusetts, Boston）
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尺寸	32 x 25 英寸 (81.3 x 63.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这件针线活是 Mehitable Starkey 于 1760 年左右在波士顿制作的一块面板，在她的家族中传承下来，直到安和菲利普霍尔泽在拍卖会上购买。与大多数波士顿针线活图片在构图上往往是水平的不同，这件作品是一个高大的垂直面板，两个独立的场景一个放在另一个之上：顶部场景显示三个人收割谷物;中间的女人高举着一把镰刀，右边的男人割麦子，左边的男人捆着镰刀。下部场景描绘了两只斜倚的鹿在跳跃的鹿两侧的风景。背景是一组砖房和一个风车。由于构图不寻常，霍尔泽推测，该面板不是要装裱和展示在墙上的图片，而是用来覆盖安乐椅的外靠背。他在研究了博物馆1758年壮观的纽波特安乐椅（50.228.3）后得出了这个结论，除了外背外，上面覆盖着原始的羊毛火焰针刺绣，外背部装饰着跳跃的鹿和牧羊人及其羊群的迷人田园风光。这块面板显然是由一位在波士顿学校学习针线活的年轻女子制作的。虽然椅子框架是在纽波特制造的，但针线活是波士顿教师鉴定的刺绣的特征。安乐椅上的针线背板和霍尔泽先生的面板尺寸大致相同，两种设计很可能来自相似的来源。这一时期的波士顿针线活照片通常是用帐篷或缎面针迹完成的。安乐椅上的面板是缎面缝合的，霍尔泽先生的面板是帐篷缝合的，这并不能掩盖这两件极其罕见的室内装潢杰作的惊人相似之处。
介绍（英）	This piece of needlework is a panel made in Boston about 1760 by Mehitable Starkey and passed down in her family until purchase at auction by Ann and Philip Holzer. Unlike most Boston needlework pictures, which tend to be horizontal in composition, this piece is a tall vertical panel, with two discrete scenes placed one above the other: the top scene shows three people harvesting grain; a woman at the center holds a sickle aloft, while a man at her right cuts the wheat and a man at her left bundles it. The lower scene depicts a landscape with two reclining deer flanking a leaping deer. In the background are a group of brick dwellings and a windmill. Because of the unusual composition, Mr. Holzer surmised that, rather than a picture to be framed and displayed on a wall, the panel was intended to cover the outer back of an easy chair. He came to this conclusion after studying the Museum's spectacular Newport easy chair of 1758 (50.228.3), covered with its original wool flame-stitch embroidery except for the outer back, which is decorated with a charming pastoral scene of leaping deer and a shepherd and his flock. This panel was clearly made by a young woman who studied needlework at a Boston school. Although the chair frame was made in Newport, the needlework is characteristic of embroideries identified with Boston teachers. The needlework back panel on the easy chair and Mr. Holzer's panel are about the same size, and both designs are most likely drawn from similar sources. Boston needlework pictures from the period were usually completed in either tent or satin stitch. That the panel on the easy chair is in satin stitch and Mr. Holzer's is in tent stitch cannot obscure the amazing similarities of these two extremely rare upholstery masterpieces.