马鞍的三块鞍板 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	马鞍的三块鞍板
品名（英）	Three Pommel Plates of a Saddle
入馆年号	1929年，29.158.623
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1485 - 公元 1545
创作地区	原产国: 德国（Country of Origin: Germany）
分类	马术设备鞍座（Equestrian Equipment-Saddles）
尺寸	Center: 13¾ x 6¾ 英寸 (34.9 x 17.1 厘米); Right: 16 x 6½ 英寸 (40.6 x 16.5 厘米); Left: 16 x 6¾ 英寸 (40.6 x 17.1 厘米); 宽 2 磅 15 盎司 (1329 g). Assembled: 高 7 英寸 (17.8 厘米); 宽 28 英寸 (71.1 厘米).
介绍（中）	这套鞍甲板的三件式结构在整个16世纪都是西欧的标准。覆盖鞍部区域的中央板两侧是两个以90度角向下延伸的板，这两个板既用于覆盖鞍弓的凸缘，又用于保护骑手的大腿前部。在保护过程中，在鞍板和侧板的铆钉孔周围发现了两个微小的汞镀金痕迹，这表明这些钢最初是用镀金装饰的尽管到15世纪末，装甲鞍在重骑兵中一定很常见，但现存的鞍钢却出奇地罕见，其年代早于1525年。这一套的日期建议为1510年至1520年，因为在鞍马顶部和侧板底部边缘发现了非常大胆的绳索边界，以及由侧板上的成对浅凹斜槽组成的凹槽装饰。表明早期的风格特征是绳索边界的松散和开放的对角线扭曲，以及成对长笛的凹入性质和它们之间光滑钢的平坦区域。这些也是1510年至1520年这一时期的特征，这是第一个以这种方式将绳索和长笛结合在一起装饰德国盔甲的十年。
介绍（英）	The three-piece construction of this set of pommel plates was standard across western Europe throughout the sixteenth century. A central plate covering the area of the pommel itself is flanked by two plates extending downward at a ninety-degree angle that serve both to cover the flanges of the saddle bow and to protect the front of the rider's thighs. During conservation two minute traces of mercury gilding were found around the rivet holes on the pommel plate and one sideplate, indicating that the steels were originally decorated to some extent with gilding. Although armored saddles must have been faily common for heavy cavalry by the late fifteenth century, surviving saddle steels dating earlier than about 1525 are surprisingly rare. A date of about 1510 to 1520 is suggested for this set because of the exceedingly bold form of the roped borders, found at the top of the pommel and the bottom edges of the sideplates, and the fluted decoration, consisting of pairs of shallow, concave diagonal grooves on the sideplates. The stylistic features indicative of an early date are the loose and open diagonal twist of the roped borders, as well as the concave nature of the paired flutes and the plain areas of smooth steel between them. These are also characteristic of the period from about 1510 to 1520, the first decade in which roping and fluting were combined in this way to decorate German armor.