Svanshals No. 1 / Svanhals

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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk? - passant

Scene Description: inside arch 1; avian, with a cockerel crest and dragon tail; facing left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - bird - tongue sticking out - long tongue

Scene Description: inside arch 2; facing left; long tongue (?) with the tip shaped like a floral motif

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped - feline? - passant - tree - acanthus plant or tree

Scene Description: inside arch 3; quadruped with feline paws, passant facing right; a tall acanthus plant or tree behind the beast

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - bird - eagle? - passant - floral motifs

Scene Description: inside arch 4; eagle-like avian, facing keft; fantastic ornamentation at the tail; long tongue ends in acanthus motif

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B05: animal - mammal - dog - regardant - wearing collar

Scene Description: inside arch 5; body facing left, head turned right; beaded-tape collar; long acanthus-tipped tongue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B06: animal - mammal - dog - regardant - wearing collar

Scene Description: inside arch 6; body facing right, head turned left; beaded-tape collar; long acanthus-tipped tongue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B06: animal - mammal - dog - regardant - wearing collar - detail

Scene Description: inside arch 6; body facing right, head turned left; beaded-tape collar; long acanthus-tipped tongue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped - canine? - dog? - passant

Scene Description: inside arch 7; facing left; long acanthus-tipped tongue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped - canine? - dog? - passant

Scene Description: inside arch 8; facing left; acanthus-tipped tongue almost reaches the ground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - beaded-tape - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the capitals are formed by a six-petaled flower inscribed in a circle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - architectural - arch-head - round - beaded-tape - 9

Scene Description: the round arch-heads appear to rest on some sort of base-like shape

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: inside the arch-heads and in the spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - acanthus

Scene Description: all eight of them are very similar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: very worn and damaged; appears to be part of the basin block

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: at the very bottom of the bulging volume of the lower base; broken in several places

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: with large interlaced circles; all around the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: on the bulging part of the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: although from some angles it resembles a braid or rope motif

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

information

Scene Description: SHM label for this font

Image Source: grayscale version of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

information

Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

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Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

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information

Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI

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view of base

Scene Description: showing the damage to the stem and the repair

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of base

Scene Description: showing the extent of the damage and repair on both the stem, and the lower volume of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of base - lower base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "bladornamentik med "union knot""

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 8, 1 and 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 1 and 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 2 and 3

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 3 and 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 4 and 5

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 4, 5 and 6

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 5, 6 and 7

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: showing arches 6, 7 and 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2005 by Olof Ekström [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Svanshals_kyrka.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2011 by Bernt Fransson [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svanshals4.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Hildebrand (1907: fig. 238)

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: ""I parken vid Herr Axel Dicksons egendom Kyleberg står en dopfunt, 1 ½ aln hög, med djurfigurer i rundbågar, troligtvis kommen från Svanshals kyrka. Denna dopfunt har af Herr Dickson blifvit insänd som gåfva till Statens Historiska Museum (1862)." Den finns ännu kvar på museet. Teckning i "Utdrag af Antiqvitets-Intendenten P. A. Säves afgifna berättelse för år 1861", publicerad i Antiqvarisk tidskrift för Sverige band 1, 1864."

Image Source: digital image of a 1861 drawing by Pehr Arvid Säve in Antiqvarisk tidskrift för Sverige 1 (1864), plansch 3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kyleberg,_dopfunt,_Svanshals.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing basin arches 8, 1 and 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing basin arches 2, 3 and 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing basin arches 3 and 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing basin arches 4, 5 and 6

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing basin arches 5, 6 and 7

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing basin arches 6, 7 and 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: showing basin arches 7 and 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=950518F4] [accessed 20 April 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003; 107)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00178SVA

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum

Church/Chapel: [originally from Svanshals kyrka -- now in a museum]

Church Location: Svanshals, 590 22 Väderstad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 142 552 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län

Directions to Site: Located in the SW shore of the Tåkern, about 10 km ENE of Ödeshög

Ecclesiastic Region: Linköpings Stift -- Ödeshögs Församling

Historical Region: Vadstena kn, Östergötland

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius, Group 1

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lennart Karlsson, to the curator for the medieval collections and the staff at the SHM for their help in documenting this font during our two visits

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

B.M. Hildebrand (1864) illustrates the font and reports it as being already at the Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, in 1862. Illustrated in H. Hildebrand (1907) [NB: Hildebrand uses the spelling "Svanhals"]. Described and illustratdd in Roosval (1917) and (1918). Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 1). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950518F4] as a baptismal font made of sandstone by Bestiarius in the late-12th century. Noted and illustrated in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003). On-site notes: cylindrical basin decorated with eight fancy animals and many symbols which appear frequently on Bestiarius' fonts; each of the eight animals is inside and arch of the arcade of eight round arches made of beaded tape around the basin sides; all the animals have long tail-like tongues, some of which resemble plants; on the underside of the bowl there is an arcade of nine beaded-tape arches, the inside of the arches and the spandrels filled with acanthus motifs. The font is cut from two blocks of stone. Richly carved acanthus motifs ornament the base of the font and also the spandrels of the arcades of the underbowl; there is damage to the upper part and lower parts of the base; the repair appears already recorded in Hildebrand's drawing of late 19th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.3251, 14.804

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58° 19′ 30.36″ N, 14° 48′ 14.4″ E

UTM: 33V 488520 6464922

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 6.5-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 55-56 cm* / 54 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 68.5-70 cm* / 70 cm**

Basin Depth: 24 cm* / 25 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 36-37 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50-52 cm* / 54 cm**

Height of Base: 37-40 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 86-90 cm* / 90 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003: 107)

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Hildebrand, Bror Emil, Antiqvarisk Tidskrift för Sverige, Stockholm: P.A. Nordstedt & Söner, 1864

Hildebrand, Hans, Den Kyrkliga konsten under Sveriges medeltid: en kortfattad öfversikt, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1907

Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917

Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003