Lekythos公司 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Lekythos公司
品名（英）	Lekythos
入馆年号	2018年，2018.294.15
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Chelsea Keramic Art Works【1872 至 1889】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1872 - 公元 1880
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 马萨诸塞州, 切尔西（Made in: United States, Massachusetts, Chelsea）
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尺寸	8 x 3 英寸 (20.3 x 7.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	切尔西凯拉米克艺术作品是第一家将自己指定为"艺术陶器"的美国陶瓷公司。它由罗伯逊家族的成员在马萨诸塞州切尔西创立，他们在来到这个国家之前都在英国的陶瓷行业磨练了自己的技能。该公司的早期专长是复制由查尔斯洛克东湖等英国时尚人士制造的古希腊陶器。切尔西丰富的红土特别适合希腊设计。到1874年，该公司开始生产制作精美的古董花瓶复制品，装饰用黑色纸条涂成。一个例子模仿了希腊Lekythos的形式，其中几个在着名的恩格尔菲尔德收藏的出版目录中，罗伯逊夫妇对此很熟悉。与该公司在古董模型上的装饰不同，lekythos上的装饰反映了当代英国改革设计师的信条，如Charles Locke Eastlake和Christopher Dresser。高度传统的叶子在心形的中心图案上的主要图案 - 完全现代风格 - 看起来是Dresser的1873装饰设计原则中发表的设计。与古董的另一个不同是使用彩色，在次级叶元素中看到，这些元素被冷漆成奶油色、橄榄色和粉红色。根据罗伯逊家族的传统，这个花瓶是由约翰·加德纳·洛（John Gardner Low）装饰的，他画了切尔西制造的其他希腊风格花瓶。这个花瓶来自2017年和2018年捐赠给大都会博物馆的美国艺术陶器小罗伯特·A·埃里森收藏。收藏中的作品可以追溯到 1870 年代中期至 1950 年代。它们共同构成了已知最全面和最重要的材料组合之一。
介绍（英）	The Chelsea Keramic Art Works was the first American ceramics firm to designate itself an "art pottery." It was founded in Chelsea, Massachusetts, by members of the Robertson family, all of whom had honed their skills in the ceramics industry in Britain before coming to this country. An early specialty of the firm was the reproduction of Ancient Greek pottery made fashionable by such English tastemakers as Charles Locke Eastlake. Chelsea's rich red clay was particularly well suited to Greek designs. By 1874 the firm was producing finely made copies of antique vases with decoration painted in black slip. One example imitates the form of a Greek Lekythos, several of which were in the published catalogue of the celebrated Engelfield Collection, with which the Robertson's were familiar. Unlike the decoration on the antique models by the firm, the ornamentation on the lekythos reflects the tenets of contemporary English Reform designers such as Charles Locke Eastlake and Christopher Dresser. The principal pattern of highly conventionalized leaves over a heart-shaped central motif--entirely modern in style--looked to a design published in Dresser's 1873 Principles of Decorative Design. Another departure from the antique was the use of polychrome, seen in the secondary leafy elements, which were cold-painted in cream, olive, and pink. According to Robertson family tradition, this vase was decorated by John Gardner Low, who painted other Greek-style vases made at Chelsea. This vase is from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of American art pottery donated to the Metropolitan Museum in 2017 and 2018. The works in the collection date from the mid-1870s through the 1950s. Together they comprise one of the most comprehensive and important assemblages of this material known.