门扣 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	门扣
品名（英）	Doorknocker
入馆年号	1927年，27.14.13
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 1475 - 公元 1525
创作地区
分类	金属制品青铜（Metalwork-Bronze）
尺寸	整体 (confirmed): 11 7/8 × 6 1/2 × 2 英寸 (30.2 × 16.5 × 5.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	一个插入门木头的敲门器，当撞到同样贴在门上的金属板上时，允许访客向里面的人宣布他们的存在。这个青铜敲门器以环的形式铸造，周围锻造着将其固定到位的水平铁带;带子末端的狭窄插槽有助于用铁楔将其固定在门的另一侧。重量和厚度意味着一扇相当粗壮的门。该物体显示出大量的年龄和用途，显示出丰富的天然铜绿，刻痕，以及敲门器下背部后面摩擦良好，略微扁平的区域，在那里它击中了现在丢失的板。环状组合物融合了鼠尾草和有点类似于海豚的海洋生物，海豚的嘴巴形成了它终止的钻石的表圈。最著名的包括钻石的图像属于佛罗伦萨的美第奇家族，但它缺乏鼠尾草和海豚般的海洋生物。[1]戒指可以表示任何婚姻联盟。就这一点而言，这个未经研究的物体的英俊形式和造影并不显得特别佛罗伦萨。 -JDD 脚注（有关缩短参考文献的关键，请参阅大都会艺术博物馆的艾伦，意大利文艺复兴和巴洛克青铜器的参考书目。纽约：大都会艺术博物馆，2022。 1. 在Langedijk 1981-87中没有出现这样的组合。
介绍（英）	A knocker inserted through the wood of a door, when struck against a metal plate that was likewise affixed to the door, allowed visitors to announce their presence to those within. This bronze knocker was cast in the form of a ring, around which was forged the horizontal iron strap that held it in place; the narrow slot at the end of the strap helped secure it on the other side of the door with an iron wedge. The weight and thickness imply a door of considerable stoutness. The object shows plenty of age and use, evincing a rich natural patina, nicks, and a well-rubbed, slightly flattened area behind the lower back of the knocker, where it struck the now-missing plate. The ringlike composition incorporates acanthus and sea creatures somewhat resembling dolphins, the mouths of which form a bezel of sorts for the diamond in which it terminates. The most celebrated imagery to include a diamond belonged to the Medici family in Florence, but it lacked acanthus and dolphinlike sea life.[1] The ring could signify any marital alliance. The handsome forms and facture of this unstudied object do not, for that matter, appear particularly Florentine. -JDD Footnotes (For key to shortened references see bibliography in Allen, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.) 1. No such combinations appear in Langedijk 1981–87.