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We've been talking about all these kinds of gifts that the groom gave to the bride
我们一直在讲的都是新郎送给新娘的各类礼物
But the bride also gave gifts to her betrothed
但新娘也有送礼物给她的未婚夫
And one of the kinds of vessels that she might give was
其中一种她可能送给新郎的器皿
what in Italian are known as Baccine
意大利人称其为Bacchine
And here you see one that's very very similar
而在这里，你们看到的这个跟它非常相似
From exactly the same period the beginning of the 16th century in Venice
它们同是制于16世纪初期的威尼斯
It's in the Victoria and Albert Museum
目前为维多利亚与艾伯特博物馆藏品
And in the centre of it
在这个器皿的中央
It has three little fish which are Christian symbols that are associated with baptism
有三条小鱼，这是基督教的象征，与洗礼有关
And that's because once again these objects in the painting
这还是因为画中的这些物品
relate to the wish for the creation of a family
寓意着一个新家庭的诞生
And it's the kind of bowl that would have been used in the baptism
在洗礼中就会用到这种钵
or also at times sweetmeats would have been put in these at the actual wedding feast itself
或者有时候，在喜宴上里面也会放上各种糖果甜食
It was long thought that in the very centre of this
长期以来一直认为，在这个器皿中间
you could see Laura Bagarotto's coats of arms which you are looking at here
可以看到罗拉·巴伽罗托的纹章，就是你们看到的这里
When the painting was cleaned in the early 1990's
这幅画在20世纪90年代初被清理过
the people in Rome who cleaned it thought that in fact you couldn't see her coat of arms
当时罗马负责清理该画的人认为，事实上我们看到的这个不是纹章
Those are just strokes they could be anything
那些只是一些笔触，说它们是什么都行
In fact I don't really think it matters so much
事实上，我认为这上面到底
whether her actual coat of arms are there or not
有没有罗拉的纹章并不重要
Because it is actually the placement of that dish
因为事实上，重点是盘子的位置
And how it relates to the rest of the painting
以及它与画中其它部分的关系
That make it very clear it's her gift to him
清楚地表明这是她给他的礼物
And can you see it's placed
你们能不能看到盘子被放在
There's her gift
她的礼物
Right above his coat of arms
刚好就放在他纹章的上面
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个小喷泉，有一只正在喷水的小水龙头
and there's Cupid who's stirring up that water
而丘比特正在搅动池水
And it's watering a rosebush which is lavishly blooming with flowers
水正喷在一丛开满花朵的玫瑰花丛上
Now that kind of gesture of water coming out of a spigot
而水从水龙头里喷出的姿势
Was almost always associated with ejaculation
几乎总是与射精联系在一起
So once again it is the idea of the creation
因此，这又是一种生育的理念
And growing the generation of a family as well as that rose bush
而玫瑰灌丛也涉及到抚养家庭的下一代
