This small, hemispherical, silver tea bowl is an early example of the English obsession with all things Chinese. It was made in 1683/4 by an unidentified London silversmith in imitation of (more expensive) imported Chinese porcelain tea bowls.
Like the contemporary silver wall-sconces, it has been flat-chased with 'novel』 Chinese-inspired vignettes of Chinamen, pagodas, hoho birds and stylized scrolling foliage – a radically different aesthetic from the highly embossed dense decoration of most late seventeenth-century domestic silver.
Whilst visually appealing, the handle-less cup is a functional disaster: silver is an excellent conductor of heat, so when filled with freshly made tea, it would quickly have become too hot to hold, let alone drink from. Consequently, silver tea bowls were a short-lived phenomenon and most were melted down, making this example a rare survival.
They were replaced by porcelain tea bowls without handles or tea cups with a single handle, their precise shape and decoration varying between manufactories and constantly changing to keep up with the latest fashions. Silver was still employed at the tea-table of the well-to-do, but only for kettles, teapots, milk jugs, sugar basins and teaspoons
劍橋大學 菲茨威廉博物館(Fitzwilliam Museum )英國銀器收藏
菲茨威廉博物館(Fitzwilliam Museum)
文物博物館(Art and Antiquities Museum)
菲茨威廉博物館(Fitzwilliam Museum)是劍橋大學(University of Cambridge)的雅典藝術和古物博物館。 它位於劍橋市中心菲茨威廉街對面的川普頓街。 它成立於1816年,是理察·菲茨·威廉姆(Richard FitzWilliam)的第7位子爵·菲茨·威廉士(Witzcount FitzWilliam)的遺贈,是西歐最好的古董和現代藝術收藏館之一。
博物館收藏了超過五十萬件藝術品和藝術品,探索著從古代到現在的世界歷史和藝術。 博物館的珍品包括莫奈(Monet),畢卡索(Picasso),魯本斯(Rubens),文森特·梵谷(Vincent van Gogh),倫勃朗(Rembrandt),塞尚(Cézanne),範·戴克(Van Dyck)和卡納萊託(Canaletto)的藝術品。還有一個美術館,展出蓋恩斯伯勒(Gainsborough),孔斯特布爾(Constable)和畢卡索(Picasso)的作品。
The Fitzwilliam Museum
菲茨威廉博物館(The Fitzwilliam Museum)銀器收藏,種類繁多,大部分歷史可追溯到15世紀。早期的英國勺子,還包括在奧格斯堡和紐倫堡(Augsburg and Nuremburg)的金匠中心製造的16世紀和17世紀的酒杯和有蓋杯子,以及克裡斯蒂安·范維安納(Christiaen Van Vianen)和雅各布·博登德赫(Jacob Bodendeich)等移民銀匠的英銀作品。英式喬治亞風格的銀子既用於陳列,又用於餐飲,其代表性很好,其中包括英國最偉大的銀匠之一保羅·斯託爾的作品。
19世紀和20世紀不同的設計運動也得到了很好的體現,尤其是在工藝美術時期,有愛德華·斯賓塞(Edward Spencer),吉爾伯特·馬克斯(Gilbert Marks),奧馬爾·拉姆斯登(Omar Ramsden)和阿什比(C. R. Ashbee)等設計師的精美作品。二十世紀後半葉的作品數量很少(例如羅伯特·韋爾奇(Robert Welch)設計的作品),尼古拉斯(Sir Nicholas)爵士和朱迪思·古迪森(Judith Goodison)通過藝術基金會提供贊助,該博物館正在積極地購買藝術家的當代銀器和金屬製品,例如如鈴木宏(Hiroshi Suzuki),席德爾·多夫(Sidsel Dorph-Jensen)和阿迪·託奇(Adi Toch)。
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