推车拉玩具和司机 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	推车拉玩具和司机
品名（英）	Pull Toy of a Cart and Driver
入馆年号	1987年，1987.142.261a–c
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1350 - 公元 1550
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	高 10 11/16 英寸 (27.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	青铜和陶制轮式物品，可能是儿童玩具，在许多文化中都有，例如，印度早期艺术就富含这种材料。据推测，当这些玩具由更昂贵的青铜制成时，它们是为上流社会的孩子们设计的东爪哇时期的带轮子和轮轴的青铜玩具通常以马、骑手或公羊等动物的形式出现。推车和司机的代表并不常见，但可能曾经在一些数字中存在过。在这个例子中，忠实地复制了一些原始的推车，它被仔细地建模，但司机被以一种奇怪的粗略的方式表现出来。他的衣着和发型表明他出身卑微，他的帽子（或辫子）和尖尖的鼻子让他看起来像是来自爪哇皮影世界的人物。右手中的短物体和左手中的长物体的意义尚不清楚。这件物品的魅力今天对我们来说是显而易见的，就像它对它的原始主人来说一样。
介绍（英）	Bronze and terracotta wheeled objects, probably intended to be children's toys, are found in many cultures—the early art of India, for example, is rich in such material. It is assumed that when made from the more costly bronze, the toys were for children of the upper classes. Bronze toys with wheels and axles from the Eastern Javanese period usually take the form of horses and riders or rams and other animals. Representations of carts and drivers are uncommon but probably once existed in some numbers. In this example, the cart, faithfully reproduced from some original, is carefully modeled, but the driver is represented in a curiously cursory fashion. His dress and hairstyle indicate his humble origins, and his cap (or pigtail) and long pointed nose give him the look of a character from the Javanese shadow-puppet world. The significance of the short object in his right hand and of the longer one held in his left and extending beyond his elbows is unclear. The charm of the object is as apparent to us today as it must have been to its original owner.