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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
其中一種她可能送給新郎的器皿
what in Italian are known as Baccine
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
From exactly the same period the beginning of the 16th century in Venice
它們同是制于16世紀初期的威尼斯
It's in the Victoria and Albert Museum
目前為維多利亞與艾伯特博物館藏品
And in the centre of it
在這個器皿的中央
It has three little fish which are Christian symbols that are associated with baptism
有三條小魚，這是基督教的象征，與洗禮有關
And that's because once again these objects in the painting
這還是因為畫中的這些物品
relate to the wish for the creation of a family
寓意著一個新家庭的誕生
And it's the kind of bowl that would have been used in the baptism
在洗禮中就會用到這種缽
or also at times sweetmeats would have been put in these at the actual wedding feast itself
或者有時候，在喜宴上里面也會放上各種糖果甜食
It was long thought that in the very centre of this
長期以來一直認為，在這個器皿中間
you could see Laura Bagarotto's coats of arms which you are looking at here
可以看到羅拉·巴伽羅托的紋章，就是你們看到的這里
When the painting was cleaned in the early 1990's
這幅畫在20世紀90年代初被清理過
the people in Rome who cleaned it thought that in fact you couldn't see her coat of arms
當時羅馬負責清理該畫的人認為，事實上我們看到的這個不是紋章
Those are just strokes they could be anything
那些只是一些筆觸，說它們是什么都行
In fact I don't really think it matters so much
事實上，我認為這上面到底
whether her actual coat of arms are there or not
有沒有羅拉的紋章并不重要
Because it is actually the placement of that dish
因為事實上，重點是盤子的位置
And how it relates to the rest of the painting
以及它與畫中其它部分的關系
That make it very clear it's her gift to him
清楚地表明這是她給他的禮物
And can you see it's placed
你們能不能看到盤子被放在
There's her gift
她的禮物
Right above his coat of arms
剛好就放在他紋章的上面
And then you have a little fountain right below that a little spigot which water is spewing out of
然后可以看到那下面就是一個小噴泉，有一只正在噴水的小水龍頭
and there's Cupid who's stirring up that water
而丘比特正在攪動池水
And it's watering a rosebush which is lavishly blooming with flowers
水正噴在一叢開滿花朵的玫瑰花叢上
Now that kind of gesture of water coming out of a spigot
而水從水龍頭里噴出的姿勢
Was almost always associated with ejaculation
幾乎總是與射精聯系在一起
So once again it is the idea of the creation
因此，這又是一種生育的理念
And growing the generation of a family as well as that rose bush
而玫瑰灌叢也涉及到撫養家庭的下一代
