Huy No. 1 / Hoei / Hu
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Results: 11 records
RS01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - cross - Greek cross
Scene Description: the animal is described in Ghislain (2009) as "un monstre hybride surmonté d'une croix patée", a bird body on two non-avian legs, and a massive non-avian head -- seen here in the very-worn left corner spandrel
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(2).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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RS02: angel - demi-figure - holding musical instrument - horn
Scene Description: the figure, identified in Ghislain (2009) as "un ange buccinateur", playing a hunting horn -- seen here in the very-worn right corner spandrel in the foreground of the image
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(2).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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RS03: animal - bird - dove - facing each other - eating bunch of grapes or arum - 2
![they rather appear to be pecking at each other above a bunch of arum or grapes -- in the third spandrel [L->R, starting with weird animal and cross]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: they rather appear to be pecking at each other above a bunch of arum or grapes -- in the third spandrel [L->R, starting with weird animal and cross]
![they rather appear to be pecking at each other above a bunch of arum or grapes -- in the third spandrel [L->R, starting with weird animal and cross]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
RS04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - 24
Scene Description: six arches per side of the square basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(2).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: a large leaf at each angle, forming the capital of the outer colonnette
design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: spur-like, at the angles
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: around the lower base
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: all around the opening of the inner basin
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design element - patterns - ribbed or torsade
view of font in context
Scene Description: a partial view of this font -the dark one in the foreground- as exhibited in Le Grand Curtius museum in 2014
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(2).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00408HUY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Le Grand Curtius: Musée d'Archéologie, d'Art mosan, d'Armes, du Verre, et des Arts décoratifs, Quai de Maestricht 13, 4000 Liège
Church/Chapel: [original church uncertain]
Church Location: Museum address and coordinates: Rue Mère-Dieu 11, 4000 Liège, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 4 221 68 40
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Huy is located 30 km SW of Liège
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocèse de Liège]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1150-1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart as a Tournai font on a five-support base (Enlart, 1902), and mentioned in Bond (1908) after Enlart. That font seems to be the same one catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1150-1160; Ghislain (ibid.) notes the font is reputed to have originated in an ancient church in Huy, acquired before WWI by Raymond Pelgrims de Bigard (†1955), who restored its base and placed it in the courtyard of castle at Grand-Bigard [NB: Kasteel Groot-Bijgarden / Château de Grand-Bigard, in the municipality of Dilbeek, Flemish Brabant, 7 km W of Brussels]. Ghislain (ibid.) notes that the font was acquired in 1981 by the M.A.R.A.M. and exhibited in Grand Curtius [i.e., Le Grand Curtius: Musée d'Archéologie, d'Art mosan, d'Armes, du Verre, et des Arts décoratifs, Quai de Maestricht 13, 4000 Liège] in 2009. The font has no cover present but shows anchorage holes at diagonally opposed spandrels of the upper rim from an old cover [the holes are in the spandrels that house the angel with the horn and St. John's haloed eagle]. Noted and illustrated in Images et histoires des patrimoines numérisés [http://www.numeriques.be/index.php?id=6&no_cache=1&tx_portailnumeriques_pi1%5Bview%5D=item_detail&tx_portailnumeriques_pi1%5Bid%5D=peps%3AMAR-GC-REL-02a-1981-34060&tx_portailnumeriques_pi1%5Bnum%5D=2] [accessed 18 October 2021]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.64694, 5.58389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 38′ 49.56″ N, 5° 35′ 0.85″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 70-71.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38.5 cm*
Height of Central Column: 34 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 87-88 x 87-88 cm* / 86 x 86 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009) / ** Images et histoires des patrimoines numérisés
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902