镀金银座碧玉杯 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	镀金银座碧玉杯
品名（英）	Jasper Cup with Gilded-Silver Mounts
入馆年号	2000年，2000.504
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1345 - 公元 1385
创作地区	制造于: 布拉格（Made in: Prague）
分类	Lapidary作品Jasper（Lapidary Work-Jasper）
尺寸	整体: 4 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 3 7/16 英寸 (10.5 x 11.5 x 8.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这款杯子有着整体雕刻的三叶草把手、深十二面体碗和巨大的镀金底座，既罕见又壮观。现存的西方中世纪的宝石首饰实例不多。事实上，用半宝石雕刻的中世纪欧洲器皿鲜为人知，以至于保存下来的器皿有时被误认为是罗马和拜占庭的宫廷。这种混乱是一种可能会让奖杯的创造者感到高兴的事情该器皿由一种立即被视为珍贵和异国情调的材料雕刻而成，是查理四世（1355年在罗马加冕；公元1378年）宫廷的产物。它的碧玉中含有特有的紫水晶，只能在布拉格西北部的奥雷山脉山麓开采。一个十六世纪的消息来源告诉皇帝派人去那里寻找半宝石来装饰他的大教堂和皇家礼拜堂。近年来，地质学家在奇布索夫附近山区的废弃竖井中发现了他们工作的痕迹，这些竖井可以追溯到中世纪。今天，波希米亚碧玉仍然覆盖在布拉格大教堂和城外的卡尔斯特金城堡的小教堂墙上。这一时期的船只往往失去了原来的底座，或者被后来的主人装饰过。值得注意的是，博物馆的杯子保留了中世纪的底座，与在布拉格创作并保存在大教堂金库中的金匠作品相比。
介绍（英）	With its integrally carved trefoil handle, deep dodecahedral bowl, and massive gilt mounts, this cup is as rare as it is spectacular. There are few surviving examples of Western medieval lapidary. Indeed, medieval European vessels carved from semiprecious stone are so little known that preserved examples are sometimes mistakenly attributed to imperial courts of Rome and Byzantium. The confusion is one othat would have delighted the cup's creators. Carved from a material that is immediately perceived as precious and exotic, the vessel is a product of the imperial court of Charles IV (crowned at Rome 1355; d. 1378). Its jasper with characteristic amethyst inclusions, could have been mined only in the foothills of the Ore Mountains, northwest of Prague. A sixteenth-centuty source tells of the emperor's sending men there to search for semiprecious stones to decorate his cathedral and royal chapel. In recent years geologists have found traces of their work in abandoned shafts dating to the Middle Ages tucked into mountains near Cibusov. Today Bohemian jasper still sheathes the chapel walls at Prague Cathedral and at Karlstejn Castle, just outside the city. Often vessels of this period have lost their original mounts or have been embellished by subsequent owners. The Museum's cup, remarkably, retains its medeival mount, which bears comparison to goldsmith's work created in Prague and preserved in the cathedral treasury.