Svanshals No. 1 / Svanhals
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Results: 54 records
B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk? - passant
Scene Description: inside arch 1; avian, with a cockerel crest and dragon tail; facing left
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped - canine? - dog? - passant
Scene Description: inside arch 7; facing left; long acanthus-tipped tongue
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B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped - canine? - dog? - passant
Scene Description: inside arch 8; facing left; acanthus-tipped tongue almost reaches the ground
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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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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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Scene Description: showing basin arches 7 and 8
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Scene Description: showing basin arches 6, 7 and 8
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Scene Description: showing basin arches 5, 6 and 7
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Scene Description: showing basin arches 4, 5 and 6
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Scene Description: showing basin arches 3 and 4
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Scene Description: showing basin arches 2, 3 and 4
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Scene Description: showing basin arches 8, 1 and 2
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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."
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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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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Hildebrand (1907: fig. 238)
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view of basin - detail
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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
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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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
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view of basin - detail
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design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: although from some angles it resembles a braid or rope motif
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: very worn and damaged; appears to be part of the basin block
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: inside the arch-heads and in the spandrels
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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
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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
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - acanthus
Scene Description: all eight of them are very similar
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Scene Description: showing arches 6, 7 and 8
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Scene Description: showing arches 5, 6 and 7
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Scene Description: showing arches 4, 5 and 6
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Scene Description: showing arches 4 and 5
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Scene Description: showing arches 3 and 4
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Scene Description: showing arches 2 and 3
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Scene Description: showing arches 1 and 2
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Scene Description: showing arches 8, 1 and 2
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olof Ekström, 2005
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2011
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 base - lower base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "bladornamentik med "union knot""
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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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Scene Description: showing the extent of the damage and repair on both the stem, and the lower volume of the base
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Scene Description: showing the damage to the stem and the repair
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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
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: on the bulging part of the lower base
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: with large interlaced circles; all around the stem of the base
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Scene Description: SHM label for this font
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Image Source: grayscale version of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 [with SHM permission] by BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ullén & Ljungstedt, 2003
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ullén & Ljungstedt (2003; 107)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00178SVA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1997-06-16; 2012-08-28
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius, Group 1
Museum: Statens Historiska Museum, SHM 3014
Church / Chapel Name: [originally from Svanshals kyrka -- now in a museum]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: Svanshals, 590 22 Väderstad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 142 552 00
Site Location: Östergötland, Östergötlands län, Sweden, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disused font -- damaged font -- painted font?: some minute traces of paint found on the lower base
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 488520 6464922
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.3251, 14.804
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58° 19′ 30.36″ N, 14° 48′ 14.4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
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, p. 183
- Hildebrand, Bror Emil, Antiqvarisk Tidskrift för Sverige, Stockholm: P.A. Nordstedt & Söner, 1864, vol. 1: 115fn
- Hildebrand, Hans, Den Kyrkliga konsten under Sveriges medeltid: en kortfattad öfversikt, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1907, fig. 238 on p. 134
- Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917, [?]
- Ullén, Marian, Östergötlands medeltida dopfuntar, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetet och författarna, 2003, p. 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 107, fig. 5-8