烧杯 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	烧杯
品名（英）	Beaker
入馆年号	1948年，48.187.308
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Nicolas Gonthier【1738 至 1823】
创作年份	公元 1774 - 公元 1775
创作地区
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	高: 4 3/4 英寸 (12.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	18世纪上半叶，钟形或郁金香形的烧杯成为整个法国使用的主要形式。这只烧杯可能是梳妆台的一个部件，但同样也可能是主人旅行时使用的餐具和其他餐具的一部分尽管很难确定这一时期的银烧杯中到底会喝什么饮料，但本例中的应用装饰——葡萄串与小麦穗交替——很可能表明它可以装葡萄酒或啤酒。18世纪陶瓷制造业的迅速发展以及从中国进口的大量产品，导致了瓷器和玻璃取代了银制的饮用器皿这只烧杯是1948年凯瑟琳·D·温特沃斯（1865-1948）遗赠给博物馆的银藏品的一部分。温特沃思夫人是韦耶豪瑟木材公司创始人之一的女儿。她是一名艺术学生和画家，在法国生活了三十年，是18世纪法国白银最重要的美国收藏家之一。她的部分重要藏品，包括鼻烟盒、法国家具和纺织品，都留给了大都会博物馆。这批藏品在国内白银中尤为丰富，其中大部分是省级的，包括一些罕见的早期作品。
介绍（英）	Bell or tulip-shaped beakers became the dominant form used throughout France in the first half of the eighteenth century. This beaker may have been a component of a dressing table set but equally could have been part of a set of cutlery and other dining implements to be used when the owner was traveling. Although it remains difficult to establish exactly what beverages would be taken in silver beakers of this period, the applied decoration of this example – bunches of grapes alternating with wheat sheaves – is likely an indication that it held wine or beer. The rapid development of ceramic manufacturing in the eighteenth century as well as the vast imports from China led to the replacements of silver drinking vessels by porcelain as well as glass. This beaker was part of the collection of silver bequeathed to the museum in 1948 by Catherine D. Wentworth (1865-1948). Mrs. Wentworth was the daughter of one of the founders of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. She was an art student and painter who lived in France for thirty years and one of the most important American collectors of eighteen-century French silver. Part of her significant holdings, which included snuffboxes, French furniture, and textiles as well, were left to the Metropolitan Museum. The collection is particularly strong in domestic silver, much of it provincial, and includes a number of rare early pieces.