Crupper的上部 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Crupper的上部
品名（英）	Upper Part of a Crupper
入馆年号	1929年，29.158.604
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1550 - 公元 1650
创作地区	原产国: 意大利（Country of Origin: Italy）
分类	马甲（Armor for Horse）
尺寸	长 23 7/8 英寸 (60 厘米); 宽 28 3/4 英寸 (73 厘米); 重 8 磅 5 盎司 (3,780 g)
介绍（中）	褶皱的上部包括两个大板，形状与马的臀部相连，这些板在脊柱上通过几个铆钉连接，在末端为尾巴留下一个开口。在其原始形式中，它将在前部有一个或多个横向板将其拉长，并且在侧面和后部有几个大板，将防御向下延伸到略低于腹部水平的水平。沿着相当粗糙的接头的四个螺纹孔，两个板重叠，表明接头曾经被管状尾部护罩覆盖。臀部上方浮雕凸起周围的成对小孔（每块板上有三个）很可能是用于固定衬里的鞋带。虽然两个幸存的盘子的大小和形状表明日期在 16 世纪下半叶，但装饰是不寻常的，无法确定。表面覆盖着平行的、卷轴状或带状的带子，现在腐蚀得很厉害，但每个带以前都用金子大马士革，并沿着其上边缘用打孔的三叶草边界。在图案和技术上最接近的比较是在都灵的马甲（Armeria Reale，B5）上发现的，据信是1560年左右在布雷西亚为该市马丁嫩戈家族的一名成员制作的。尽管都灵吟游诗人的褶皱结构不同 - 其细长的铰接板垂直连接 - 但每个板的主边缘都经过装饰性切割，蚀刻和镀金，使其非常类似于博物馆示例中的丝带状带。这种相似性意味着博物馆的装饰也起源于布雷西亚，尽管它的打孔和大马士革装饰表明本世纪后期甚至十七世纪初的日期，当时打孔装饰品更为习惯。
介绍（英）	This upper part of a crupper comprises two large plates shaped to the horse's croup that are joined by several rivets over the spine, leaving an opening for the tail at the end. In its original form, it would have had one or more transverse plates elongating it at the front, as well as several large plates at the sides and rear that extended the defense downward to slightly below the level of the abdomen. Four threaded holes along the rather rough joint where the two plates overlap indicate that the joint was once covered by a tubular tail guard. The pairs of small holes (three on each plate around the embossed bulge over the point of the hip) are likely to have been for laces that served to secure a lining. While the size and shape of the two surviving plates suggest a date in the second half of the sixteenth century, the decoration is unusual and defies conclusive identification. The surface is covered in parallel, scroll- or ribbonlike bands, now much corroded but each formerly damascned with gold and bordered along its upper edge with punched trefoils. The closest comparison both in motif and technique is found on a horse armor in Turin (Armeria Reale, B5) believed to have been made in Brescia about 1560 for a member of the Martinengo family of that city. Although the crupper of the Turin bard is constructed differently––its elongated, articulated plates are joined vertically––the main edge of each plate is decoratively cut, etched, and gilt so that it closely resembles the ribbonlike bands on the Museum's example. This similarity implies that the Museum's crupper is also of Brescian origin, although its punched and damascened decoration indicates a date later in the century or perhaps even in the early seventeenth century, when punched ornament in particualr was more customary.