卧马形状的皮带板 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	卧马形状的皮带板
品名（英）	Belt Plaque in the Shape of a Crouching Horse
入馆年号	1985年，1985.214.78
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 300 - 公元前 1
创作地区
分类	金属制品（Metalwork）
尺寸	高 3 3/16 英寸 (8.1 厘米); 长 5 11/16 英寸 (14.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	有趣的金属文物，如这块银牌和中西方历史中零散的参考资料，是我们关于丝绸之路穿越中亚广大地区的众多游牧、半游牧和骑马部落的唯一信息来源。这块小牌匾很可能被用作缰绳或其他马匹装备的装饰品，展示了艺术图案在亚洲的传播。马口的喙状形状，后躯的戏剧性扭曲以及活泼的镂空框架都反映了早期居住在伊朗高原和黑海周围地区的印欧斯基泰人制造的物体中的图像和风格方法。类似的图案出现在西伯利亚南部阿尔泰山脉Pazyryk的2号墓的身体纹身中。该遗址的二十五个坟丘（库尔干）中有八个，目前可追溯到公元前四世纪末至三世纪初，出产了来自西亚和中亚的纺织品和金属制品，以及来自中国的丝绸、漆器和金属制品。这块牌匾是用银铸造的，表面有镀金的残留物。它可能是在中国北方为月氏或中亚其他邦联的成员制造的，他们与中国的各个中心保持着活跃的贸易，用毛皮和地毯交换谷物等商品和丝绸或金属制品等奢侈品。
介绍（英）	Intriguing metal artifacts such as this silver plaque and scattered references in Chinese and Western histories are our only sources of information about the numerous pastoral, seminomadic, and horse-riding tribes that inhabited the vast reaches of Central Asia traversed by the Silk Road. Most likely used as an adornment on a bridle or other equine accoutrement, this small plaque illustrates the dissemination of artistic motifs across Asia. The beaklike shape of the horse's muzzle, the dramatic twist of its hindquarters, and the lively openwork frame all reflect an imagery and stylistic approach found in objects made earlier by Indo-European Scythian peoples living on the Iranian plateau and in the area around the Black Sea. Comparable motifs appear in tattoos on the body from tomb 2 at Pazyryk, in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia. Eight of the twenty-five burial mounds (kurgan) at that site, currently dated between the late fourth and early third century B.C., have yielded textiles and metalwork from West and Central Asia as well as silk, lacquer, and metalwork from China. This plaque was cast in silver and has remnants of gilding on its surface. It was probably made in North China for a member of the Yuezhi or one of the other confederacies in Central Asia that maintained an active trade with various Chinese centers, exchanging furs and carpets for commodities such as grain and luxuries such as silk or metalwork.