一对烛台 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一对烛台
品名（英）	Pair of candlesticks
入馆年号	1948年，48.187.245a, b, .246a, b
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Charles Petit【1629 至 1725】
创作年份	公元 1701 - 公元 1702
创作地区
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	高 (each): 8 7/8 英寸 (22.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	在煤气照明和电力之前的时代，蜡烛在照亮房屋的家庭内部方面发挥了主要作用。点燃的蜡烛数量表明了所有者的财富和地位：蜂蜡蜡烛烧得很干净，气味宜人，但与牛脂制成的蜡烛相比相当昂贵。在十七世纪后期的法国，用餐习惯的改变对银烛台的生产产生了重大影响。娱乐越来越倾向于晚上，优雅的灯光成为室内装饰的重要组成部分。巴黎银匠查尔斯·佩蒂特（Charles Petit）创造了这些烛台，这些烛台具有锥形茎，装饰有带子，芦苇和女性面具的插座，并支撑在带有gadrooned边框的圆脚上。凯瑟琳·温特沃斯（Catherine D. Wentworth，1865-1948 年）是惠好木材公司创始人之一的女儿，是一名艺术学生和画家，在法国生活了三十年。她成为美国最重要的十八世纪法国银收藏家之一，并于 1948 年去世后，将她收藏的大量银器、金盒、法国家具和纺织品的一部分遗赠给了大都会博物馆。该系列在国内白银方面尤其强劲，包括相当数量的烛台。
介绍（英）	In the era before gas lighting and electricity, candles played a principal role in illuminating the domestic interior of a house. The number of candles lit was an indication of the wealth and status of the owner: beeswax candles burned clean, had a pleasant smell, but were quite expensive compared to those made of tallow. In late seventeenth-century France, a change in dining habits had a significant effect on the production of silver candlesticks. Entertainment was increasingly orientated towards the evening and elegant lighting became an important part of the interior decoration. The Paris silversmith Charles Petit created these candlesticks which have a tapered stem, sockets decorated with strapwork, reeding, and female masks, and are supported on a round foot with gadrooned border. Daughter of one of the founders of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Catherine D. Wentworth (1865–1948) was an art student and painter who lived in France for thirty years. She became one of the most important American collectors of eighteenth-century French silver and on her death in 1948 bequeathed part of her significant collection of silver, gold boxes, French furniture, and textiles to the Metropolitan Museum. The collection is particularly strong in domestic silver, including a fair number of candlesticks.