巧克力壶 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	巧克力壶
品名（英）	Chocolate Pot
入馆年号	2017年，2017.156a, b
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Tiffany & Co.【1837 至现在】
创作年份	公元 1879
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 纽约, 纽约（Made in: United States, New York, New York）
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尺寸	11 5/8 × 7 × 5 1/2 英寸 (29.5 × 17.8 × 14 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个巧克力罐体现了蒂芙尼公司在 1870 年代和 80 年代工作时前所未有的创新和创造力。在爱德华·摩尔（Edward C. Moore，1827-1891 年）的指导下，蒂芙尼生产出精湛的锻造和高度原创的银器，这反过来又吸引了许多最优秀的工匠和设计师加入公司。事实上，查尔斯·奥斯本（Charles Osborne，1847-1920）因设计这个巧克力罐而受到赞誉，他辞去了蒂芙尼竞争对手之一怀廷制造公司的首席设计师职位，以便向蒂芙尼的摩尔学习并与之合作。这种指导和合作产生的银是十九世纪下半叶生产的最好的银器之一。突出壶身的螺旋图案以及包裹壶嘴的巧妙追逐的叶子是奥斯本作品的签名。栩栩如生的小龙虾和螃蟹的铸造装饰品进一步展示了精湛的技术精湛和创造性的审美敏感性，丰富的红色也是如此，这是精心实验和创新使用电解技术的结果，以实现新的表面色调和效果。摩尔和奥斯本的灵感来自日本物品;然而，他们的工作绝不是模仿。这个引人注目的巧克力罐清楚地说明了为什么鉴赏家在1885年的一篇题为"艺术银器"的文章中庆祝蒂芙尼公司"将艺术银的制造提升到我以前时代银匠从未达到的高度"。
介绍（英）	This chocolate pot exemplifies the unprecedented innovation and creativity that characterized Tiffany & Co.'s work during the 1870s and 80s. Under the direction of Edward C. Moore (1827-1891), Tiffany's produced exquisitely wrought and highly original silver, which in turn attracted many of the finest craftsmen and designers to the firm. Indeed, Charles Osborne (1847-1920), who is credited with designing this chocolate pot, left his position as chief designer at one of Tiffany's competitors, the Whiting Manufacturing Company, in order to learn from and work with Moore at Tiffany's. The silver that resulted from this mentorship and collaboration is among the finest produced during the second half of the nineteenth century. The spiral motifs accenting the pot's body together with the masterfully chased leaves wrapping the spout are signatures of Osborne's work. The lifelike cast ornaments of crawfish and crabs further demonstrate technical virtuosity and inventive aesthetic sensibilities, as does the rich red color, the result of painstaking experimentation and innovative use of electrolytic technology to achieve new surface tones and effects. Moore and Osborne were inspired by Japanese objects; however, their work is in no way imitative. This striking chocolate pot makes clear why The Connoisseur celebrates Tiffany & Co. in an 1885 article entitled "Artistic Silverware" for having "raised the making of artistic silver to a height never reached to my knowledge by silversmiths in preceding ages."