带情人的钥匙环 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带情人的钥匙环
品名（英）	Key Ring with Lovers
入馆年号	1968年，68.141.2
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1450 - 公元 1499
创作地区
分类	金属制品铜合金（Metalwork-Copper alloy）
尺寸	整体: 3 9/16 x 2 3/4 x 5/8 英寸 (9.1 x 7 x 1.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	在十五和十六世纪，特别是在北方，房子的情妇通常会携带他们众多的箱子、橱柜和门的钥匙，钥匙用链条或绳子悬挂在腰带或腰带上的环上。有时，钥匙圈被连接到悬挂在皮带正下方的大型胸针状装置上的几条链条之一上。该设备不仅用于连接钥匙圈和其他物品，还用于固定拖曳裙子。这个钥匙圈虽然可能单独携带，但可能曾经以上述方式连接过。求爱夫妇的小雕塑将在顶端或手柄上服务。尽管十五世纪和十六世纪就存在带有非具象终端的钥匙圈，但至少还有另外两个具有非常相似图形的钥匙环幸存下来。这个特殊的例子是通过拆下将环连接到数字的螺钉来打开的。最初可能有一个小螺栓或盖子覆盖了螺钉的暴露端。
介绍（英）	During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly in the North, it was common for mistresses of the house to carry the keys for their numerous chests, cupboards, and their doors on rings suspended from their belts or girdles by a chain or cord. Sometimes the key ring was attached to one of several chains hanging from a large broochlike device fastened directly below the belt. This device was used not only to attach key rings and other items but also to pin up trailing skirts. This key ring, though possibly carried separately, may once have been attached in the fashion described above. The small sculpture of the courting couple would have served at the finial or handle. Though key rings with non-figurative terminals exist from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, at least two other key rings with very similar figures have survived. This particular example is opened by detaching the screw that links the ring to the figures. It is possible that originally a small bolt or cap covered the exposed end of the screw.