向上帝祈祷 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	向上帝祈祷
品名（英）	Prie-dieu
入馆年号	2008年，2008.452a, b
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Stammer & Breul【1840 至 1860】
创作年份	公元 1855
创作地区
分类	木工家具（Woodwork-Furniture）
尺寸	整体: 107 1/16 x 41 5/16 x 34 1/4 英寸 (272 x 105 x 87 厘米)
介绍（中）	这座供私人使用的祈祷凳以其高耸的陶器尖顶和山麓与尖拱门和无数细长柱子相结合的轮廓，充分体现了19世纪中期欧洲流行的哥特式复兴风格。受维也纳Stammer&；布鲁尔将在1855年巴黎世界博览会上展出，这座近9英尺高的普里迪厄显然受到了中世纪宗教建筑的启发。对于这些桌面制造商或专门销售小型家具和奢侈品的经销商来说，这是一件雄心勃勃的作品。1855年10月，一位评论家在《教会学家》一书中评论了巴黎博览会，称赞这种薄如纸的微马赛克表面装饰"如此精致，据说它由250万件组成，这让我们吹嘘的通布里奇瓷器的精致性黯然失色。"，通常是为装饰小规模的物品而保留的，比如英国温泉小镇通布里奇韦尔斯生产的那些物品，它以其几乎像文本一样的图案进一步增强了普里迪厄的哥特式特征，包括三叶拱门、柳叶刀、四重叶和圆形。
介绍（英）	With its towering silhouette of crocketed spires and pediments combined with pointed arches and myriad slender columns, this prayer stool intended for private devotion fully embodies the Gothic Revival style fashionable in Europe during the middle of the nineteenth century. Commissioned by the Viennese firm of Stammer & Breul to be shown at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the nearly nine-foot-tall prie-dieu was clearly inspired by religious architecture of the Middle Ages. It was an ambitious piece for these tabletiers, or dealers who specialized in the sale of small pieces of furniture and luxury goods. A critic reviewing the Paris exposition in "The Ecclesiologist"of October 1855 praised the paper-thin micromosaic surface decoration as “so elaborate that it is said to consist of 2,500,000 pieces, [ which ] throws into the shade our boasted elaborate exiguities of Tunbridge ware.” Once even more colorful, the amazingly fine mosaic technique, usually reserved for the embellishment of small-scale objects such as those produced in the British spa town Tunbridge Wells, further enhances the prie-dieu’s Gothic character with its almost textilelike patterns incorporating trefoil arches, lancets, quatrefoils, and roundels.