一对皇家耳环 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	一对皇家耳环
品名（英）	A Pair of Royal Earrings
入馆年号	1981年，1981.398.3–.4
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 100 - 公元前 1
创作地区
分类	珠宝（Jewelry）
尺寸	整体 (each): 高 1 1/2 英寸 (3.8 厘米); 宽 3 英寸 (7.6 厘米); 长 1 9/16 英寸 (4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这些耳环在印度艺术史上的地位是确定的，不仅因为它们内在的美，还因为它们揭示了该地区早期精湛的金饰质量。早期印度的男性和女性雕像通常被描绘成佩戴着精心制作的珠宝，有时看起来有些异想天开，因为那个时期几乎没有类似的珠宝幸存下来。这对耳环的发现提供了第一个确凿的证据，证明雕塑家描绘的珠宝实际上是基于真实的模型，因为一对非常相似的耳环出现在公元前一世纪贾加亚佩塔的"万能统治者"（chakravartin）浮雕肖像上这些耳环，从其材料价值、卓越的工艺以及设计中使用的皇家徽章（带翼的狮子和大象）来看，很可能是作为皇家委托制作的。每个耳环都由两个长方形的芽状结构组成，从中央的双茎卷须向外生长。repossé黄金的大象和狮子都非常详细，使用了颗粒、金属丝和薄片片段，以及单独锻造和锤击的黄金块。这两件作品并不完全相同：它们的下侧都装饰着一个古典的早期印度设计的花瓶，里面有三个棕榈，但叶子的图案使它们与众不同。它们又大又重，一定是扩张了耳垂，放在了佩戴者的肩膀上，就像"万能统治者"佩戴的那对一样
介绍（英）	The place of these earrings in the history of Indian art is assured, not only for their intrinsic beauty but also because of the light they shed on the superb quality of goldsmithing early in this region. Early Indian statues of both male and female figures were usually portrayed wearing elaborate jewelry that sometimes seemed fanciful, since very little comparable jewelry from that period survives. The discovery of this pair of earrings provided the first tangible evidence that the jewelry depicted by sculptors was in fact based on real models, for a very similar pair is shown on a first century B.C. relief portrait of a "Universal Ruler" (chakravartin), from Jaggayapeta. These earrings, judging from their material worth, excellence of craftsmanship, and use of royal emblems (a winged lion and an elephant) as part of their design, were most probably made as royal commissions. Each earring is composed of two rectangular, budlike forms growing outward from a central, double-stemmed tendril. The elephant and the lion of repoussé gold are consummately detailed, using granules, snippets of wire and sheet, and individually forged and hammered pieces of gold. The two pieces are not exactly identical: on the underside they are both decorated with a classical early Indian design of a vase containing three palmettes, but the patterning of the fronds differentiates them. They are so large and heavy that they must have distended the earlobes and rested on the shoulders of the wearer, like the pair worn by the "Universal Ruler."