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品名（中）	曼特尔钟
品名（英）	Mantel clock
入馆年号	1982年，1982.60.68
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Julien Le Roy【1686 至 1759】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1740 - 公元 1754
创作地区
分类	钟表业（Horology）
尺寸	高: 21 1/2 英寸 (54.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	在十八世纪的欧洲，对亚洲物品的热情远非新鲜事。进口的中国瓷器和日本漆在整个十七世纪一直备受推崇，各种中国风格的装饰图案以及直接复制品开始出现在一系列欧洲制造的物品上。这个时钟包含了中国佛陀使徒普泰希尚的形象。它由孔代亲王在尚蒂伊城堡建立的瓷器制造厂制造，是 18 世纪上半叶进口到欧洲的白汉模型的字面复制品。尚蒂伊还制作了许多软膏瓷花（硬膏花是后来的替代品）。瓷器雕像被放置在一个充满活力的洛可可形式的镀金青铜底座上，在许多地方印有加冕的 C，这是 1745 年 2 月至 1749 年 2 月之间使用的税收标记。朱利安·勒罗伊（Julien Le Roy）的签名出现在时钟的表盘上，是路易十五统治时期法国最受尊敬的钟表匠。他属于巴黎钟表匠家族的第五代，与他的兄弟们组成了当时最重要的钟表作坊之一。1739年，他被任命为钟表师，这使他在卢浮宫获得了一个工作室。时钟保持了原来的机架和蜗牛四分之一报时运动，但失去了钟摆。
介绍（英）	During the eighteenth century in Europe, enthusiasm for objects from Asia was far from new. Imported Chinese porcelain and Japanese lacquers had been highly prized throughout the seventeenth century, and a variety of Chinese-inspired ornamental motifs as well as direct copies began to appear on a range of European-made objects. This clock incorporates the figure of Pu-tai Hi-Shang, a Chinese apostle of the Buddha. Made at the porcelain manufactory established by the Prince of Condé at his château at Chantilly, it is a literal copy of a blanc de chine model imported to Europe in the first half of the eighteenth century. A number of the soft-paste porcelain flowers were also made at Chantilly (the hard-paste flowers are later replacements). The porcelain figure is placed on a gilt-bronze base of exuberantly rococo form which is stamped in numerous places with the crowned C, a tax mark in use between February 1745 and February 1749. Julien Le Roy whose signature appears in the clock’s dial, was the most highly esteemed clockmaker in France during the reign of Louis XV. He belonged to the fifth generation of a family of clockmakers Paris and with his brothers formed one of the most important clock and watch workshops at the time. In 1739, he was appointed horloger du roi an honor that granted him a workshop in the Louvre. The clock has kept its original rack-and-snail quarter striking movement but has lost its pendulum.