一套四个三灯壁支架 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一套四个三灯壁支架
品名（英）	Set of four three-light wall brackets
入馆年号	1979年，1979.172.11–.14
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1780 - 公元 1790
创作地区
分类	金属制品镀金青铜（Metalwork-Gilt Bronze）
尺寸	Each: 高 34 1/8 x 宽 17 x 11 英寸 (86.7 x 43.2 x 27.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	功能性和装饰性极强的青铜器，即所谓的装饰青铜器——壁灯、烛台和其他类型的照明、火狗、壁炉家具和时钟——是十八世纪装饰的一个重要方面。著名的艺术家和雕塑家紧跟最新的风格设计了它们。一个精心设计的行会体系规范了他们的创作过程，并保持了高标准的工艺。镀金青铜制品的制造由许多不同的步骤组成，主要掌握在青铜工人手中，他们在18世纪的法国被分为两个行会：fondeurs cisellers，或铸造者和追逐者，以及ciselleurs doreurs，或追逐者和镀金者这些壁灯由一套六盏组成[另见2019.283.76，.77]，由追逐和镀金青铜制成，是当时流行的新古典主义风格的缩影。每个壁灯的背板上都有一条缎带，支架似乎悬挂在缎带上，在顶部的一个大钉子周围打成蝴蝶结。两根月桂喷雾缠绕在这条缎带上，它们的末端在茎的下端打成另一个蝴蝶结。三根弯曲的蜡烛枝从刺五加叶喷雾中喷出，喷雾中还装有一束鲜花。枝条终止于叶杯形状的烛台。圆形锥形下部茎采用凹槽炬的形式尽管不知道是谁创造了这些壁灯，但它们被追逐得很漂亮。哑光和抛光区域通过各种方式将闪烁的烛光以不同的方式反射到不同的表面上，为壁灯增添了巨大的活力。
介绍（英）	Functional and exceedingly decorative bronzes d’ameublement, the so-called furnishing bronzes – wall lights, candelabra, and other types of lighting, firedogs, hearth furnishings, and clocks – were an important aspect of the eighteenth-century décor. Well-known artists and sculptors designed them closely following the latest styles. An elaborate guild system regulated the process of their creation and maintained high standards of craftsmanship. Consisting of many different steps, the manufacture of gilt-bronze objects was principally in the hands of the bronze workers, who were divided in eighteenth-century France in two guilds: that of the fondeurs-ciseleurs, or casters and chasers, and that of the ciseleurs-doreurs, or chasers and gilders. These wall lights, consisting of a set of six [see also 2019.283.76, .77], are made of chased and gilded bronze and epitomize the neo-classical style prevalent at the time. The back plate of each wall light is surmounted by a ribbon from which the bracket seems to be suspended, tied in a bow knot around a large nail at the top. Two laurel sprays are entwined around this ribbon, their ends tied in another bow knot at the lower end of the stem. Three curved candle branches spring from an acanthus leaf spray also fitted with a bouquet of flowers. The branches terminate in candleholders in the shape of leaf cups The circular tapered lower part stem takes the form of a fluted torch. Even though it is not known who created these wall lights, they are beautifully chased. The matte and burnished areas would have lent the wall lights great vitality through the various ways that the flickering candle light would be reflected differently off the differently finished surfaces.