四面罐 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	四面罐
品名（英）	Jar with Four Faces
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.1171
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1200 - 公元 1500
创作地区	墨西哥, 奇瓦瓦州（Mexico, Chihuahua）
分类	陶瓷容器（Ceramics-Containers）
尺寸	高 8 11/16 英寸 (22.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	在13世纪中期至15世纪中期，从墨西哥北部延伸至美国西南部的干旱地区被强大的城市卡萨斯格兰德斯（Casas Grandes）所统治。Casas Grandes位于现在的墨西哥奇瓦瓦州，是一个精心规划的城市中心，通过贝壳、铜、绿松石和热带鸟类羽毛等珍贵商品的贸易而变得富有。这座城市的工匠们精通这种材料的加工，通过制造出口成品来增加财富。在这些成品中，有表面明亮多彩的陶瓷器皿。这些容器，主要是球状罐子，受到了广泛的尊重和交易。在它们的制造过程中，遵循了一些或多或少标准化的形状和装饰系统，包括以蓝色/黑色和棕色/红色几何图案为主的克制色彩方案，以及对人类和动物形象的特殊使用。Janus面罐是容器中的一种，有些在两侧具有相同的面，另一些则具有不同的面。本示例通过将相同的面四次结合到罐的顶部圆周上，进一步实现了多方面。
介绍（英）	Between the mid-thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries, the arid region that stretches from northern Mexico to the southwestern United States was dominated by the powerful city of Casas Grandes. Located in what is now the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Casas Grandes was a well planned urban center made wealthy by trade in precious commodities such as shell, copper, turquoise, and tropical bird feathers. The city's craftsmen, skilled in the working of such materials, increased its wealth by making finished products for export. Among those finished products were ceramic vessels with bright polychrome surfaces. The vessels, principally globular jars, were much esteemed and widely traded. In their manufacture, certain more-or-less standardized systems of shape and decoration were followed that included restrained color schemes—chiefly blue/blacks and brown/reds—geometric patterns, and a particularized use of human and animal imagery. Janus-faced jars are among the vessels, some with the same face on each side, others with different faces. The present example has carried the multiple aspect one step further by incorporating the same face four times onto the top circumference of the jar.