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品名（中）	Manticore公司
品名（英）	Manticore
入馆年号	1995年，1995.268.310
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Vienna
创作年份	公元 1730 - 公元 1740
创作地区
分类	陶瓷-瓷器（Ceramics-Porcelain）
尺寸	高 4-13/16 英寸 (12.2 厘米.); Gr. 长 5-3/8 英寸 (13.7 厘米.)
介绍（中）	除了亚洲和欧洲比较陶瓷的核心之外，Syz系列还包括其他大陆工厂的瓷器，包括我们持有的杜帕基尔时期维也纳瓷器的重要补充。这种被称为嵌合体的模型在瓷器方面是独一无二的，在发明和怪癖方面也是无与伦比的，但它只是有点像神话中的野兽。它的灵感可能来自一种中世纪的海狮模型，这种模型的身体是侧面的，但头部是正面的。在这里，狮子风格化的轮廓鬃毛变成了引人注目的流动胡须，而尾巴和支撑树干的树枝组成的缠结让人想起了由狮子的尾巴和蜥蜴状生物形成的海蓝色手柄。这种联系并不像看起来那么不可能，1744-49年的维也纳瓷巧克力壶更是强化了这一联系，该壶正是从一个十二世纪的狮身海雕中复制而来，现在保存在维也纳的昆史博物馆，当时可能也在帝国收藏中。
介绍（英）	In addition to the nucleus of Asian and European comparative ceramics, the Syz Collection includes porcelains from other Continental factories, including significant additions to our holdings of Viennese porcelain of the Du Paquier period. Unique in the porcelain it repertoire—and unmatched in invention and eccentricity—is this model of what has been called a chimera, but which only passingly resembles that mythical beast. Its inspiration is perhaps to be found in a type of medieval lion aquamanile in which the body is in profile but the head is frontal. Here the stylized chiseled mane of the lion has been transformed into a dramatically flowing beard, while the compositional tangle of the tail and the branches of the supporting tree trunk recall the aquamanile handle, formed from the lion's tail and a lizardlike creature. This association is not as unlikely as it may seem, being reinforced by a Viennese porcelain chocolate pot of 1744–49 copied exactly from a twelfth-century griffin aquamanile now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and at the time presumably in the imperial collections.