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品名（中）	墨水架
品名（英）	Inkstand
入馆年号	1976年，1976.424.2a–j
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	John Plimmer【1771 至 1803】
创作年份	公元 1802
创作地区
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	宽: 13 3/16 英寸 (33.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	墨水架上有四个花瓶形状的容器，由三脚架支撑，这些容器微型地展示了欧洲人称之为"雅典人"的古代支架。其中两个容器的盖子上有孔，用于放置钢笔和墨水，第三个容器的沙子盖子上有穿孔设计，用于干燥墨水。第四个容器可能装着晶圆——用于密封信件的小型现成糊状物圆盘。每个长边上都有一个深槽，用于放置笔和一个托盘，用于容纳其他设备，如备用羽毛笔和用于在使用中分离或磨损羽毛笔时重新切割羽毛笔的钢笔刀。一系列装饰图案组合在一起，装饰了一个顶部有墨水井的普通矩形低盒子。脚是由成束的棘叶形成的，在它们上面的对角处，是带有埃及法老头饰的狮子面具。托盘中心的椭圆形（用于放置环形抽屉抽屉抽屉）包围着一个经典的玫瑰花结，而果实橄榄枝的连续带环绕着支架两侧的顶部和底部边缘，棘皮卷轴和外壳构成了托盘前部中心的玫瑰花结。顶部的框架由饰有月桂叶和浆果的环组成，腿由山羊的脚和前腿组成，顶部是萨蒂尔的面具。与这些浮雕装饰物形成对比的是，这四个容器让人赏心悦目，身体周围有凸起的凹槽，底座和肩部都很平坦。1773年的一份议会报告将制造商约翰·普利默列为"小工人"。墨水架是用银片组装而成的，浮雕元素可能是从另一家作为贸易供应商的银匠店获得的。制作最严格的是四个容器，但这些都在他的车间的能力范围内。普利默在19世纪初的伦敦以一种非常可接受的风格制作了一件必要的室内装饰，其中混合了装饰图案。
介绍（英）	The inkstand has four vase-shaped containers supported in tripod frames that suggest, in miniature, the stands of antiquity that Europeans called "Atheniennes." Two of the containers have holes in the covers for pens and inks and a third has a pierced design on the cover for sand, which served to dry the ink. The fourth container probably held wafers—small readymade paste-disks for sealing letters. There is a deep slot on each of the long sides for pens and a tray to contain other equipment, such as spare quills and the pen knife that was used to recut quills when they split or frayed from use. A medley of decorative motifs combine for the ornament of what would be otherwise a plain rectangular low box with inkwells on its top. The feet are formed of bunched acanthus leaves and above them, on the diagonally cut corners, are lion masks with a suggestion of Egyptian pharaonic headdresses. The oval at the center of the tray which holds the ring drawer-pull encloses a classical rosette, while continuous bands of fruiting olive branches run round the top and bottom edges of the sides of the stand, and acanthus scrolls and husks frame the rosette at the center of the tray's front. The frames on the top consist of rings decorated with bay leaves and berries, with legs formed of goat's feet and forelegs topped by satyrs' masks. In contrast to these ornaments that are all in relief, the four containers are restful to the eye, with convex flutes around the body and plain bases and shoulders. The maker, John Plimmer, was listed as a "small worker" in a Parliamentary report for 1773. The inkstand was put together from sheet silver and elements in relief could have been obtained from another silversmith's shop acting as supplier to the trade. The most exacting to make were the four containers, but these would have been within the capacity of his workshop. Plimmer produced a necessary item of interior furnishing with a mixture of decorative motifs in a very acceptable style in early nineteenth-century London.