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品名（中）	尖括号
品名（英）	Spit Bracket
入馆年号	1958年，58.174.1
策展部门	修道院（The Cloisters）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1500 - 公元 1599
创作地区
分类	金属制品铁（Metalwork-Iron）
尺寸	整体: 15 3/4 x 10 x 18 英寸 (40 x 25.4 x 45.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	尽管西班牙人，尤其是加泰罗尼亚语，铁工在中世纪晚期已经达到了很高的艺术水平，但许多普通的家用物品继续以传统和不太精致的方式制作，就像这种对吐痰的支持（曾经是一对的一部分）一样。然而，它很有趣，它的制造商表现出极大的创造力，将其拱形背部的鳞片状鳍转化为环，可以逐渐插入唾液。如果说当代的插图准确地反映了烤肉吐痰的正常运行，那么就是一些可怜的刀子坐在火边，无休止地转动着烤痰的命运，有时还配有手柄。到十五世纪，已经设计出许多更复杂的机械装置。这些包括一系列围绕火成一定角度设置的圆盘，并由其热量驱动成圆圈，而热量又通过一系列齿轮将旋转运动传递到唾液。然而，这种新的"技术"并没有取代用手转动唾液的传统方法。
介绍（英）	Although Spanish, particularly Catalan, iron working had reached a level of great artistry by the late Middle Ages, many ordinary household objects continued to be wrought in the traditional and less refined fashion, as is the case with this support for a spit (once part of a pair). It is amusing, however, and its maker demonstrated great inventiveness in transforming the scaly fins of its arched back into rings through which the spit could be inserted at gradual intervals. If contemporary illustrations accurately reflect the normal operation of the roasting spit, it was the fate of some poor knave to sit by the fire, endlessly turning the spit, which was sometimes provided with a handle. By the fifteenth century, a number of more sophisticated mechanical devices had been devised. These included a series of disks set at an angle about the fire and driven in a circle by its heat, which, in turn, transmitted the rotary motion, through a series of cogged wheels, to the spit. This new “technology” did not, however, displace the traditional method of turning the spit by hand.