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品名（中）	墨水架
品名（英）	Inkstand
入馆年号	1914年，14.91.5a–d
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 1750 - 公元 1799
创作地区
分类	金属制品白蜡（Metalwork-Pewter）
尺寸	整体: 2 1/8 × 4 英寸 (5.4 × 10.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	尽管墨水会腐蚀锡，但墨水架和墨水井通常是由这种金属制成的。这个圆形墨水架包含一个可移动的半圆形墨水罐，由铰链盖覆盖。另一半分为两部分，包括一个带有穿孔顶部的砂光机和一个带有单独盖子的容器，用于晶片。砂光机将包含非常细的沙子，摇动到书写纸上以吸干多余的墨水，晶片用于密封完成的信件。边缘上的三个孔是用来装羽毛笔的，通常是用鹅翅膀的羽毛做成的。下面的天使印记表明这件作品使用了最高质量的锡。邮票是不完整的，只有一部分锡匠的名字清晰可辨：M.WAL……可能是为活跃于18世纪Goes的安娜·玛丽亚·沃尔格雷文（Anna Maria Walgraven）所写，迄今为止，唯一有记载的以WAL开头的荷兰锡匠。
介绍（英）	Despite the fact that ink corrodes pewter, inkstands and inkwells were often made of this metal. This round inkstand contains a removable semicircular inkpot covered by a hinged lid. The other half is divided in two and consists of a sander with a perforated top and a container with a separate lid intended for wafers. The sander would contain very fine sand, shaken onto writing paper to blot the excess ink and the wafers were used to seal finished letters. The three holes in the rim were intended to hold quill pens, usually made of a goose wing’s feather. The angel stamp struck underneath indicates that the highest quality of tin was used for this piece. The stamp is incomplete and only part of the tinsmith’s name is legible: M. WAL … possibly for Anna Maria Walgraven who was active in eighteenth-century Goes, thus far the only recorded Dutch tinsmith whose name starts with WAL.