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Now under her arm she has a probably silver or bronze vase
在她的手臂下面有一只似乎是銀質或青銅的花瓶
And art history really is not rocket science
藝術史真的不是什么高深莫測的事
And it gives people the chance to make up anything they want
人們可以對其隨心所欲，任意編造，什么都可以
And here you know
而這里
I don't know about you
我不知道大家能不能分辨出來
But I can't actually tell what's in that
但我是真的看不出花瓶里面有什么東西
But that has never stopped art historians from telling you what's in it
但就這樣也無法阻止藝術史學家去推測里面的物品
Some people have suggested it's the ashes of her first husband
有些人認為是這個女人第一任丈夫的骨灰
Other people have suggested that it's rose petals
有些人覺得是玫瑰花瓣
Some people have suggested that it's money
有些人則認為是錢
Other people have suggested it's jewellery
另有些人認為是珠寶
And some people have suggested that it's water
還有人認為是水
You really can't tell
但是真的分辨不出來到底是什么
But what I can tell you is the kind of vase it was
但我可以告訴你們那個花瓶的類別
And what it was used for and how you can relate it to other ones
它被用于做什么，以及如何將它與其它物品聯系起來
And in the exhibition there is a fabulous vase
在此次展覽中，有一個非常精美的花瓶
That was done a little bit later in the 16th century
制于16世紀較晚期
In Milan for a wedding between the Annoni and Sforza families
為米蘭城里阿諾尼與斯福爾札家族的一場婚禮而打造
And in this case too the bride had been married before
這場婚姻的情況里，新娘之前也是結過婚的
And this was a gift to their mother by her two children when she remarried
這個花瓶就是她的兩個孩子送給她的再婚禮物
And the imagery going around it
而這個花瓶周圍環繞的意象
More or less relates to the idea of marital concord and happiness
基本就是婚姻和睦幸福的意思
and the hopeful idea that the marriage was going to bring about more siblings
以及希望這段婚姻能給這兩個孩子
for the two children that gave this to her
帶來更多的兄弟姐妹
And that kind of vessel is exactly the kind of vessel you would see
而那種容器恰好就是大家將要看到的這一種
This is Ghirlandaio's Birth of the Virgin
這是基爾蘭達約的《圣母瑪利亞的誕生》
And down here you can see at the birth of the virgin
在這個地方可以看到在圣母瑪利亞出生的時候
Water being poured into a vessel that is just like that
水被倒在一個跟剛剛講的這類器皿一樣的容器里
And they would not only be there as a kind of symbol in this painting
在這幅畫里，這不僅象征著
Of the fact that what the marriage was going to bring about was children
婚姻的作用就是帶來孩子這個事實
And here you have an object that you would use when those children came about
而且，這也是在孩子出生時將會用到的一個物品
They may also be related to at times in the ring ceremony
這類容器也許跟交換戒指的典禮有關
They would wash their hands
結婚雙方都要洗手
And it may be a vessel that she would have washed her hands at that point in as well
新娘可能在結婚的時候就用這種器皿洗的手
Now in the middle of the thing there is another silver and gold vessel
在這個石臺的中間有另外一個金銀器皿
Placed right there
剛好就放在這里
And that type of vessel is a very different kind of gift
而這種器皿是一種很不同的禮物
We've been talking about all these kinds of gifts that the groom gave to the bride
我們一直在講的都是新郎送給新娘的各類禮物
But the bride also gave gifts to her betrothed
但新娘也有送禮物給她的未婚夫
And one of the kinds of vessels that she might give was what in Italian are known as Baccine
其中一種她可能送給新郎的器皿，意大利人稱其為Bacchine
And here you see one that's very very similar
而在這里，你們看到的這個跟它非常相似
