沙发 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	沙发
品名（英）	Sofa
入馆年号	1999年，1999.396
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	John Henry Belter【1804 至 1863】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1850 - 公元 1860
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 纽约, 纽约（Made in: United States, New York, New York）
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尺寸	53 1/4 x 66 x 25 英寸 (135.3 x 167.6 x 63.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这款五条腿的沙发体现了19世纪40年代和19世纪50年代在美国流行的洛可可复兴风格，它将18世纪法国来源的曲线形状和cabriole腿与19世纪中期流行的极其细致的自然主义装饰相结合。许多美国橱柜制造商为奢侈品市场生产此类家具，但出生于德国的贝尔特长期以来一直以其非凡的天赋而闻名。1856年，他是一位多产的制造商，在现在的上东区拥有一家大型工厂，尤其以红木客厅家具以及这里展示的薄层压结构和现代造型而闻名，这些都是通过使用蒸汽和压力的专利方法实现的尽管这一类型的美国作品有数百件幸存下来，但没有多少被记录在案，最好的作品几乎总是归功于贝尔特。很少有例子能像这张沙发那样有成就感或活力四射，它的特点是华丽的蛇形徽章和华丽的狮鹫花束。中央花环从两个聚宝盆上跳下，由文艺复兴风格的瓮和成对的海豚支撑。
介绍（英）	This five-legged sofa exemplifies the Rococo Revival style, popular in America during the 1840s and 1850s, which combined curvilinear forms and cabriole legs from eighteenth-century French sources with the extremely detailed, naturalistic ornament favored in the mid-nineteenth century. A number of American cabinetmakers produced such furnishings for the luxury market, but the German-born Belter has long been recognized for his extraordinary talent. A prolific maker with a large factory by 1856 on what is now the Upper East Side, he was particularly known for his rosewood drawing-room furniture and for his thin, laminated construction and moded forms—as demonstrated here—which were achieved by using a patented method of steam and pressure. Although hundreds of American pieces in this genre survive, not many are documented and the best are almost always ascribed to Belter. Few examples are as accomplished or exuberant as this sofa, which is distinguished by a voluptuous serpentine crest with luxuriant, griffin-flanked bouquets. Springing from two cornucopias, the central floral garland is supported by a Renaissance-style urn and paired dolphins.