剑鞍马 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	剑鞍马
品名（英）	Sword Pommel
入馆年号	2015年，2015.696
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1101 - 公元 1300
创作地区	原产国: 可能是法国（Country of Origin: probably France）
分类	剑配件（Swords-Accessories）
尺寸	直径 2 x 3/4 英寸 (5.1 x 1.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	这枚鞍子是可追溯到十字军东征时期的独特剑和匕首鞍子群的最佳例子之一，其中大部分是在中世纪欧洲人称为圣地的中东地区发现的。鞍背上身份不明的纹章盾牌可能是其原主人或他所服务的贵族家庭的徽章。前面的跨步狮子也出现在该群体的其他鞍子上，包括以前属于大都会艺术博物馆武器和盔甲部创始策展人巴什福德·迪恩博士的鞍子（编号 29.158.685）。鞍由圆盘形式的铸青铜制成，周围有十二个扇贝或裂片，并装饰有珐琅。正面有一个纹章人物的狮子通过守卫天蓝色（狮子走到观众的左边，全脸看着观众，蓝色），背面有一个纹章盾牌刺穿（垂直分为两半），狮子猖獗的轮廓，可能是守卫（一只狮子垂直站在它的后腿上，面向观众的右侧，可能看起来是全脸的观众）在德克斯特（观众的左半部分盾牌）和五个弯曲的天蓝色（小对角线蓝色带与不确定纹章颜色的带交替）在险恶（观众的盾牌右半部分）。两侧的纹章设计出现在由圆形框架内的叶状卷轴图案组成的背景上。周边的每个扇贝都装饰有简单的三叶草图案。在狮子正面的凹陷区域、背面盾牌的对角带之间以及中央圆形隔间和叶子周围的两侧都有蓝绿色的珐琅痕迹。凸起的区域和边缘有摩擦的棕绿色青铜色。鞍是空心的，但铸有厚壁，底部有一个矩形开口，顶部有一个圆形孔，以容纳剑刃的唐。
介绍（英）	This pommel is one of the best examples of a distinct group of sword and dagger pommels dating from the time of the Crusades, most of which have been found in the area of the Middle East that was known to Europeans during the Middle Ages as the Holy Land. The unidentified heraldic shield on the back of the pommel was probably the insignia of its original owner or the noble family he served. The striding lion on the front also appears on other pommels from this group, including one that formerly belonged to Dr. Bashford Dean, the founding curator of the Department of Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 29.158.685). The pommel is made of cast bronze in the form of a disk with twelve scallops or lobes around its perimeter and is decorated with enamel. The obverse has the heraldic figure of a lion passant guardant azure (lion walking to the viewer's left and looking full-face to the viewer, colored blue) and on the reverse there is a heraldic shield impaled (divided vertically in two halves) with a lion rampant contourné, possibly guardant (a lion standing vertically on its hind legs facing to the viewer's right and possibly looking full-face to the viewer) on the dexter (viewer's left half of the shield) and five bendlets azure (small diagonal blue bands alternating with bands of an indeterminate heraldic color) on the sinister (viewer's right half of the shield). The heraldic designs on both sides appear on a background consisting of a leafy scroll pattern within a circular frame. Each of the scallops around the perimeter is decorated with a simple trefoil motif. There are traces of blue-green champlevé enamel in the recessed areas of the lion on the obverse, between the diagonal bands of the shield on the reverse, and on both sides around the central circular compartments and the lobes. The raised areas and the edges have a rubbed brownish-green bronze patina. The pommel is hollow, but cast with thick walls, with a rectangular opening at the bottom and a circular hole at the top to accommodate the tang of a sword blade.