动物头柄花瓶 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	动物头柄花瓶
品名（英）	Flower vase with animal-head handles
入馆年号	2021年，2021.293
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1271 - 公元 1368
创作地区
分类	金属制品（Metalwork）
尺寸	高 11 英寸 (28 厘米); 宽 3 英寸 (7.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个生动的花瓶以元代对古代青铜器的创造性重新诠释为特色。它的装饰可能与12世纪木版印刷目录中对古代青铜的某种异想天开的重新解释直接相关。船腹上气势恢宏的盘龙以及脚和脖子上的波浪图案显然来源于西周（公元前1046年至771年）的礼器《宣和博古图》，这是12世纪首次出版的宋代古代青铜器目录。这只器皿的设计师不满足于仅仅复制这个古老的模型，而是打算创造一个"新的古董"。艺术家拒绝了古老模型的蹲形和张开的嘴，创造了一个细长的锥形颈部，更适合器皿作为花瓶的功能。它的两个龙把手也被改造了。与周船上的风格化生物不同，与这些把手最相似的是蒙元时期金属制品上的游牧图案。
介绍（英）	This lively vase features the Yuan-dynasty creative reinterpretation of archaic bronzes. Its decoration may be linked directly to the somewhat fanciful reinterpretation of an ancient bronze in a 12th century woodblock-printed catalogue. The imposing entwined dragons on the vessel’s belly as well as the wave patterns on the foot and neck are clearly derived from a Western Zhou dynasty (1046–771 B.C.) ritual wine container illustrated in the Xuanhe Bogutu, a catalogue of ancient bronzes in the imperial Song dynasty collection first published in the 12th century. Not satisfied to merely copy this ancient model, the designer of this vessel was intent on creating a “new antique.” Rejecting the squat form and flaring mouth of the archaic model, the artist created an elongated and tapered neck better suited to the vessel’s function as a flower vase. Its two dragon handles are also transformed. In place of the stylized creatures on the Zhou vessel, the closest parallels to these handles are nomadic designs seen on metalwork from the Mongol Yuan dynasty.