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品名（中）	祈祷台
品名（英）	Prayer desk
入馆年号	2015年，2015.639
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin【1812 至 1852】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1839 - 公元 1849
创作地区
分类	木工家具（Woodwork-Furniture）
尺寸	整体 (confirmed): 33 1/2 × 26 1/2 × 23 1/2 英寸 (85.1 × 67.3 × 59.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	建筑师和设计师A. W. N. Pukin于1835年皈依天主教后，他的作品受到他在宗教改革前英格兰的生活观念的强烈影响。普金在拉姆斯盖特（1843-44）为自己建造的房子格兰奇是这种浪漫的中世纪愿景的完美典范。这个 prie-dieu 是为普金自己在格兰奇教堂中使用的而设计的，虽然体积很小，但完全配备了管风琴、圣器收藏室、法衣、教堂盘子等庆祝弥撒：1844 年左右教堂的水彩画显示了祭坛前类似祈祷凳的阴影轮廓。普金的家具主要用于他设计的房屋，相对简单，有些严肃和教会性质，这个prie-dieu就是一个很好的例子。然而，这个相当朴素的祈祷台，具有最少的装饰特征，没有室内装潢或填充物，有其自然的优雅。这表现在两个倒角立柱的优雅曲线上，肘托下方和栈桥脚下方横梁的尖顶拱形下边缘。虽然三叶草形状的象牙榫可能看起来纯粹是装饰性的，但它们是所谓的"揭示结构"的一部分，后来被工艺美术设计师广泛使用。
介绍（英）	After the architect and designer A. W. N. Pugin converted to Catholicism in 1835, his work was strongly influenced by his ideas of life in pre-Reformation England. The Grange, the house Pugin built for himself in Ramsgate (1843–44), was a perfect example of this romantic medieval vision. This prie-dieu was designed for Pugin’s own use in the chapel at The Grange, which although small in size was completely outfitted for celebrating Mass with organ, sacristy, vestments, church plate etc.: a watercolor of the chapel from around 1844 shows the shadowy outline of a similar prayer bench in front of the altar. Pugin’s furniture, intended mostly for the houses he designed, is relatively simple, somewhat severe and ecclesiastical in nature of which this prie-dieu is an excellent example. Yet this rather plain prayer bench, which has a minimum of ornamental features and no upholstery or padding, has its own natural grace. This is expressed in the elegant curves of the two chamfered uprights, the ogival arch-shaped lower edge of the cross piece underneath the elbow rest and also under the trestle feet. Although the trefoil-shaped tusked tenons might look purely decorative they are part of the so-called "revealed construction" which was later widely used by Arts and Crafts designers.