Notteback / Nottebäck
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Results: 71 records
B01: human figure - warrior - with shield and sword - detail
Scene Description: one side 1 of the basin; facing right; this figure may be part of a fighting scene with the two-headed dragon (?) on side 2
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B01: human figure - warrior - with shield and sword
Scene Description: one side 1 of the basin; facing right; this figure may be part of a fighting scene with the two-headed dragon (?) on side 2
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B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - two-headed
Scene Description: one side 2 of the basin; facing left; this animal may be part of a fighting scene with the warrior on side 1
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B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - two-headed
Scene Description: one side 2 of the basin; facing left; this animal may be part of a fighting scene with the warrior on side 1
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B03: animal - mammal - lion? - passant - detail
![on side 3 of the basin, facing left; the right front paw holds a vertical rod, spear or cross [too worned for identification]; it might be an Agnus Dei [the Lamb holding the Cross] but the animal and the position of the leg holding the rod are atypical](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121009080_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on side 3 of the basin, facing left; the right front paw holds a vertical rod, spear or cross [too worned for identification]; it might be an Agnus Dei [the Lamb holding the Cross] but the animal and the position of the leg holding the rod are atypical
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B03: animal - mammal - lion? - passant
![on side 3 of the basin, facing left; the right front paw holds a vertical rod, spear or cross [too worned for identification]; it might be an Agnus Dei [the Lamb holding the Cross] but the animal and the position of the leg holding the rod are atypical](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121009075_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on side 3 of the basin, facing left; the right front paw holds a vertical rod, spear or cross [too worned for identification]; it might be an Agnus Dei [the Lamb holding the Cross] but the animal and the position of the leg holding the rod are atypical
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B03: animal - mammal - lion? - passant
![on side 3 of the basin, facing left; the right front paw holds a vertical rod, spear or cross [too worned for identification]; it might be an Agnus Dei [the Lamb holding the Cross] but the animal and the position of the leg holding the rod are atypical](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121009068_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on side 3 of the basin, facing left; the right front paw holds a vertical rod, spear or cross [too worned for identification]; it might be an Agnus Dei [the Lamb holding the Cross] but the animal and the position of the leg holding the rod are atypical
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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur?
Scene Description: on side 4 of the basin, facing left; the upper part of the body is badly worn and the identification is tentative
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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur?
Scene Description: on side 4 of the basin, facing left; the upper part of the body is badly worn and the identification is tentative
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B05: animal - mammal - quadruped
Scene Description: on side 5 of the basin; the four-legged body faces left but the head may be turned towards the right in a 'regardant' pose; too worn for a clear identification
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B05: animal - mammal - quadruped
Scene Description: on side 5 of the basin; the four-legged body faces left but the head may be turned towards the right in a 'regardant' pose; too worn for a clear identification
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B06: animal - mammal - lion - gardant
Scene Description: on side 6 of the basin; the body facing left; the representation appears to have a certain hint of 'orientalism'
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B06: animal - mammal - lion - gardant
Scene Description: on side 6 of the basin; the body facing left; the representation appears to have a certain hint of 'orientalism'
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B07: animal - bird - unidentified
Scene Description: on side 7 of the basin; facing left; a luxuriant tail; the area of the head is too worn to even discern which way the head is facing
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B07: animal - bird - unidentified
Scene Description: on side 7 of the basin; facing left; a luxuriant tail; the area of the head is too worn to even discern which way the head is facing
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LBS01: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: one of four on the sloping sides of the base; facing right; an acanthus-flower like shape emerges from its mouth
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LBS02: animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant
Scene Description: one of four on the sloping sides of the base; facing right
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LBS03: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: one of four on the sloping sides of the base; facing right
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LBS04: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: one of four on the sloping sides of the base; facing right
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font and baptismal dish in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nottebäcks kyrka.Dopfunten från 1937 är en kopia av den gamla medeltida funten som numera förvaras i Statens historiska museum."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2020 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nottebäcks_kyrka_Dopfunt_001.jpg
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view of font - side 6
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view of font - side 5
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view of font - side 4
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view of font - side 3
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view of font - side 2
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "fabeldjur"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "tvehövdad drake"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "soldat med svärd och sköld"
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view of basin
Scene Description: Source caption: "soldat och tvehövdad drake"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "fågel"
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "fyrfoting"
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view of basin - interior
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: seen here at the top, just below the zigzag, being part of the basin block
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals - beaded-tape motif
Scene Description: the beaded-tape on the arches and columns
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the basin arcade
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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
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design element - patterns - zigzag
Scene Description: around the lower edge of the basin; it is interrupted and/or broken off at some spots
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernt Fransson,Lindås, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2007 by Bernt Fransson, Lindås [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notteb%C3%A4ck1.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2012]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Nottebäcks kyrka. interiör mot västyter." -- the modern replica font of 1937 seen inside the church [the original is in the SHM]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220401001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nottebäcks kyrka. interiör mot västyter." -- the modern replica font of 1937 seen inside the church [the original is in the SHM]
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view of church interior - retable
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon"
view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon"
view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon"
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon"
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "lejon"
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "djurhuvuden, foten"
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view of base
Scene Description: Source caption: "djurhuvuden, foten"
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "djurhuvuden, foten"
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view of base - detail
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view of base - side 4
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view of base - side 3
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view of base - side 2-3
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view of base - side 2
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view of base - side 1
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animal - mammal - lion - protome - detail
Scene Description: two of the eight protruding heads of the lower base; surely lion's; the one at the right appears to hold prey
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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: the zigzag motif appears right below the rope moulding, between the upper animal protomes, and, agan, right down the bottom of the base, below the lower rope moulding
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animal - mammal - lion - protome - 8?
Scene Description: although the shape of the two volumes of the base suggests two bodies of turtles, (all?) the animals appear to be felines, the head covered in short curly manes, with long front legs that dangle down from them
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design element - motifs - rope moulding - 2
Scene Description: two of them, running between the feline protomes
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Scene Description: SHM label for this font
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Scene Description: SHM inventory archive notes; p.4, with B&W photograph of font
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Scene Description: SHM inventory archive notes; p.3
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Scene Description: SHM inventory archive notes; p.2
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Scene Description: SHM inventory archive notes; p.1
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view of font
Scene Description: displayed at the SHM in 1997
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information
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Image Source: on-site notes taken 28 August 2012 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00183NOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1997-06-16; 2012-08-28
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Njudungsgruppens huvudtyp' [Blomqvisr, SHM, Borg] / Bestiarius, Group 4 [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: replica copy of medieval font made in 1937
Museum: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, SHM 6158
Church / Chapel Name: Nottebäcks Kyrka
Font Location in Church: [original font now in a museum]
Previous Font Location(s): Nottebäck Kyrka
Church Notes: medieval church demolished between 1831 and 1837; new chuch consecrated 1837
Church Address: [Address & coordinates are for the new church] Nottebäcksvägen, 360 71 Norrhult, Sweden
Site Location: Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Nottebäck is located off (W) road 23 N, 2-3 km S of Norrhult, 8 km ENE of Braås, about 35 km NE of Växjö [NB: the medieval font is now kept at the SHM] Stockholm]
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift -- Nottebäcks församling
Historical Region: Uppvidinge härad
Additional Comments: damaged font / disused font -- painted font: traces of paint found inside the basin / replica font (made in 1937 for use in the church)
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Hildebrand (1907). Noted in Roosval (1917) as a two-piece font in the Statens Historiska Museum of Stockholm. Described and illustrated in the SHM database [https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=910615F1] [accessed 9 October 2012], with date circa 1200. Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 4). Invetoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font in the 'Njudungsgruppens huvudtyp' made of sanstone between 1170 and 1220. On-site notes: this font of the Bestiarius workshop is chalice shaped, consisting of a cylindrical bowl raised on a round base of two levels with animal heads; decorated with an arcade of seven arches carved around the basin; inside the arches: at the front, a warrior armed with sword and long shield faces a two-headed dragon on his right; the six other arches have animal motifs, including a possible centaur in the third arch, but are too damaged for identiffication; the first two arches, the warrior and the two-headed dragon (?) may have meant to form a fighting scene; the arches and columns of the arcade have beaded-tape motif on them; the upper rim of the basin side has braided motif, the lower one, zig-zag; the centre ring, a rope moulding, is part of the basin block, but there are two others that are part of the base block, one between the upper four heads, the other between the lower heads of the base. The base is of two-layer design with a total of eight heads, four on each level, looking like two tortoises, one on top of the other, but some (?) of the animals are feline,, protome-like, probably lions, there front legs hanging down; the sides of the basin have passant animals, probably lions as well. The basin is badly damaged, being broken horizontally into three parts [NB: the font is now [August 2012] at the Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm].
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 510858 6328578
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.100417, 15.179222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 6′ 1.5″ N, 15° 10′ 45.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two [top one now broken into two]
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 6.5-7 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 53-54 cm* / 53 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm* / ** / 66.7 cm***
Basin Depth: 29-30 cm* / 29 cm**
Height of Basin Side: 35-38 cm* / 41 cm**
Basin Total Height: 43-44 cm* / 47 cm**
Height of Base: 43-45 cm* / 42 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 86-90 cm* / 89** / 89 cm***
Square Base Dimensions: 49 x 56 cm* / 49 x 49 cm**
Notes on Measurements: *BSI on-site / ** Borg (2002) / *** SHM [910615F1]
REFERENCES
- Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929, p. 6, 8, 13-16, 22
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002, vol. 2: 206-207
- Champeaux, Gérard de, Introduction au monde des symboles, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1972, p. 233 and pl. 73
- Hildebrand, Hans, Den Kyrkliga konsten under Sveriges medeltid: en kortfattad öfversikt, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1907, fig. 233 on p. 133
- Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917, p. 51