弗林特洛克手枪对 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	弗林特洛克手枪对
品名（英）	Pair of Flintlock Pistols
入馆年号	1992年，1992.330.1, .2
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者	Samuel Brunn【1795 至 1820】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1800 - 公元 1801
创作地区	原产国: 英格兰, 伦敦（Country of Origin: England, London）
分类	火器（Firearms）
尺寸	长 of each pistol 16 英寸 (40.6 厘米); 长 of each barrel 10 1/8 英寸 (25.7 厘米); Cal. of each pistol .603 英寸 (15.3 毫米)
介绍（中）	这些手枪是目前已知的装饰最华丽的新古典主义英国枪械之一。它们是塞缪尔·布鲁恩的杰作，他是伦敦著名的割剑师和枪支制造商，曾被任命为威尔士亲王（后来的摄政王和乔治四世国王，1760年至1830年）和其他王室成员，以及政府军械委员会的成员。枪管和锁是用青钢雕刻的，上面镶有武器和树叶的战利品。枪托的装饰，结合了雕刻的片状银镶嵌和重型铸造和追逐的银支架，灵感来自当代法兰西帝国的火器。这些支架的设计似乎是英国枪支独有的，是一位使用M.B.标记的银匠的作品，他最近被确认为伦敦剑柄制造商和银匠迈克尔·巴内特一些装饰图案基于古罗马的来源：侧板上喂养海豹的nereid源自1762年在罗马出版的赫库兰尼姆废墟中发现的一幅壁画的雕刻；扳机护板上的椭圆形奖章代表着大力神和被击败的亚马逊，它是基于一颗古老的宝石，从当代的雕刻和铸造中得知。屁股上的美杜莎头也来源于古典艺术，但在这里，理想化的模型已经变成了传说中的蛇发女怪的扮鬼脸但几乎是幽默的漫画这些手枪体现了亲法语的摄政王统治时期英国装饰艺术的丰富和精致，据说是为摄政王制作的。
介绍（英）	These pistols rank among the most lavishly embellished Neoclassical English firearms known. They are the masterpieces of Samuel Brunn, a leading London sword cutler and gunmaker who held appointments to the Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and King George IV, 1760–1830) and other members of the royal family, as well as to the government's Board of Ordnance. The barrels and locks are of blued steel engraved and gold-inlaid with trophies of arms and foliage. The decoration of the stocks, combining engraved sheet-silver inlay and heavy cast and chased silver mounts, was inspired by contemporary French Empire firearms. The mounts, the designs of which appear to be unique to British firearms, are the work of a silversmith using the mark M.B., recently identified as the London sword-hilt maker and silversmith Michael Barnett. Several of the ornamental motifs are based on ancient Roman sources: a nereid feeding a sea leopard on the sideplate derives from an engraving, published in Rome in 1762, of a wall painting found in the ruins of Herculaneum; and the oval medallion on the trigger guard, representing Hercules with a defeated Amazon, is based on an antique gem known from contemporary engravings and casts after the original. The Medusa head on the butt also derives from classical art, but here the idealized model has been transformed into a grimacing yet almost humorous caricature of the legendary gorgon. These pistols epitomize the opulence and sophistication of English decorative arts produced during the reign of the Francophile Prince Regent, for whom they were reputedly made.