Taller del Moro

INFORMATION

FontID: 00729TAL
Museum and Inventory Number: In the Museo de San Vicente between 1929 and 1969; in the Taller del Moro (from 1969 to 2002); since in the Museo de Santa Cruz, in Toledo city
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de El Salvador
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Church Location: c/ Taller del Moro, 6, 45002 Toledo, Spain -- Tel.: +34 925 78 82 70
Country Name: Spain
Location: Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 15th century (early), Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hispano-Moresque font
A news reporting the continued closing of the museum in [https://www.abc.es/toledo/20150622/abcp-tristeza-taller-moro-20150622.html] [accessed 11 April 2023] informs of a baptismal font in it, in which a famous playwrite is believed to have been baptised: "pila bautismal de la cercana iglesia de El Salvador (en la que supongo que bautizarían al dramaturgo toledano Francisco Rojas Zorrilla)". Noted and illustrated in ECRA [https://cultura.castillalamancha.es/sites/default/files/2020-02/informe-final-pila-bautismal.pdf] [accessed 11 April 2023] with claims that it was the font in which Queen Juana la Loca was baptised in 1479. Foliage adorns the sides with heraldic shields, some of which display green floriated crosses. Leaves of the acathus, grapevine and thistle, glazed in gree on a white background, follow in alternating panels around the bowl of the font. It is an octagonal bowl; it bears an inscription with the 'Ave Maria'.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 39.856341, -4.027418
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 39° 51′ 22.83″ N, 4° 1′ 38.71″ W
UTM: 30S 412116 4412318

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: ceramic
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 86 cm
Basin Total Height: 71 cm

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: Around rim of bowl.
Inscription Text: "Ave Maria"
Inscription Source: Gothic lettering

REFERENCES

Frothingham, Alice Wilson, "Ceramic Baptismal Fonts of Toledo Province", Actas del XXIII Congreso Internacional de Historia del Arte: España entre el Mediterraneo y el atlantico, Granada., Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1977