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品名（中）	欧元
品名（英）	Ewer
入馆年号	2015年，2015.502
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Peter Bettesworth【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1635
创作地区
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	整体 (confirmed): 11 3/8 × 10 7/8 × 5 5/8 英寸, 35.64 盎司 (28.9 × 27.6 × 14.3 厘米, 1010.5g)
介绍（中）	这款朴素而装饰简约的银壶以其简洁的轮廓和充满活力的雕塑轮廓而著称。细长喷口的戏剧性扫掠由配有拇指片的耳形手柄平衡，允许握把平衡填充容器的重量。结构可能很简单——它由简单的凸起部件组成——但它具有确定的比例感和功能感。水壶将与餐具柜或橱柜上的配套盆一起展示，并带到餐桌上供用餐时洗手。至少在 1670 年代之前，这种水壶的形式，其边缘略微外翻，喇叭形脚和喇叭形喷口一直使用。只有少数例子幸存下来，他们的盆有一个宽阔的平坦边缘和中心凸起的凸起，以便在不使用时容纳水壶的脚。十七世纪早期银器上没有装饰传统上归因于清教徒对雕像装饰的厌恶，但更可能是内战前后不安全社会的反映。顾客很清楚，如果他们需要的话，他们的盘子是一种现成的钱，虽然英镑的熔化价值是稳定的，但如果要求牺牲，对银匠劳动力的投资就会损失。在冲突中，属于国王及其宫廷以及学院和制服公司的大量盘子被摧毁。因此，恢复前的英国银是非常罕见的。这个水壶是2013年7月由业余寻宝者在多塞特郡金斯敦罗素附近的一块田地里使用金属探测器挖掘出来的。据推测，十七世纪占领庄园的米歇尔家族埋葬了银壶，以使其免于破坏，尽管这种情况仍有待调查。
介绍（英）	This austere and minimally-decorated silver ewer is remarkable for its clean outline and its energetic, sculptural profile. The dramatic sweep of the elongated spout is balanced by an ear-shaped handle fitted with a thumb piece allowing a grip that balances the weight of the filled vessel. The construction may be simple—it is formed of uncomplicated raised components— but it is composed with a sure sense of proportion and function. The ewer would have been displayed with a matching basin on a sideboard or cupboard and brought to the table for the washing of hands during a meal. The form of this ewer, with its slightly everted rim, trumpet-shaped foot and flaring spout was employed at least until the 1670s. Only a few examples survive with their basins, which have a broad, plain rim and raised boss at center to accommodate the foot of the ewer when not in use. The absence of decoration on early seventeenth century silver has traditionally been ascribed to a Puritan distaste for figural ornament, but more likely it is a reflection of an insecure society in the years around the Civil War. Patrons were well aware that their plate holdings were a form of ready money should they need it, and though the melt value of sterling was stable, the investment in the silversmith’s labor would be lost if a sacrifice was demanded. A vast quantity of plate belonging to the king and his court as well as the colleges and livery companies was destroyed during the conflict. Pre-Restoration English silver, therefore, is very rare. This ewer was excavated in July 2013 by amateur treasure-hunters using a metal detector in a field adjacent to Kingston Russell in Dorset. The presumption has been that the Michel family, which occupied the manor house in the seventeenth century, buried the silver ewer to save it from destruction, though this scenario remains to be investigated.