Laguna No. 1 / La Laguna / San Cristóbal de La Laguna

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design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2022 by Paloma Parra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 April 2022)

design element - motifs - knob? - 4

Scene Description: a row of

Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2022 by Paloma Parra

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design element - patterns - torsade

Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2022 by Paloma Parra

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information

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cuadro de las templos filiales de la parroquia [detalle]. Foto: JALL"

Image Source: digital photograph of a painting in the parish [https://html.scribdassets.com/4vha20zd1c6t7s9o/images/23-df2433d5ac.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2022]

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symbol - acorn? grapes?

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Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2022 by Paloma Parra

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symbol - disc

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Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2022 by Paloma Parra

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symbol - star

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Image Source: digital photograph 29 March 2022 by Paloma Parra

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 December 2012 by Diego Delso [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_la_Inmaculada_Concepción,_San_Cristóbal_de_La_Laguna,_Tenerife,_España,_2012-12-15,_DD_01.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2012 by Daniel García Asensio [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_la_Concepción_2.JPG] [accessed 26 August 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1919?

Image Source: Fototipia de Hauser y Menet, Madrid, in Gestoso y Pérez (1919)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Mehling (1986: 651)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Antibaptisterio y baptisterio, tras la última restauración. Foto: JALL" [NB: the font in the bottom-left corner is the mid-16thC ceramic vessel; the one at the back is its later replacement]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in Lorenzo Santana Rodríguez' La pila bautismal recreada por Moure, in La Laguna y su parroquia matriz. Estudios sobre la Iglesia de la Concepción (2016: 358-375) [https://www.academia.edu/38546299/La_pila_bautismal_recreada_por_Moure] [accessed 3 April 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02111LAG

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquia-Matriz de Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion

Church Patron Saints: The Immaculate Conception of St. Mary

Church Location: Plaza de la Concepción, 10, 38201 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain -- Tel.: +34 922 25 91 30

Country Name: Spain

Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias

Directions to Site: Located off Calle Adelantado-Calle de los Bolos crossroads, in the northern area of the town centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche of the aisle

Date: ca. 1479? / ca. 1550s?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Hispano-Moresque / Mudéjar

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hispano-Moresque font

Cognate Fonts: other such fonts at Breña Alta, Los Sauces, Valsequillo and Gáldar, all in the Canary Islands; the basin similar to the one at Archidona, in Malaga prov.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pamela Parra for her photograph of this font

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Noted and illustrated in Rodríguez Moure's Historia de la parroquia ma-triz de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de La Laguna (1915). Noted and illustrated in Gestoso y Pérez (1919). Described in Borras Guals (1995): a beautiful ceramic (glazed earthenware) Mudéjar font of the 15th century. The basin has reliefs depicting foliage motifs and bunches of grapes. The upper base has braid/lace motif and its lightly concave towards the centre. Described and illustrated in Mehling (1985) as "a 15C Majolica font". Hernández Perera (1952), after Gestoso y Pérez (1903), notes a group of similar fonts of Sevillian manufacture and sent to the Canary Islands which includes Breña Alta, Los Sauces, Gáldar (Arucas), La Laguna and Valsequillo [antes en Telde]. Gestoso dates the La Laguna font to ca. 1479. The Cabildo de Tenerife informs that the ceramic fonts were originally made in Seville and believed to have been brought to Tenerife for the baptism of the native Guanches [source: www.puntoinfo.idecnet.com]. Hernández Perera (1952) points out that the basin of this baptismal font has decorative motifs similar to those on the font at the Ermita de la Virgen de Gracia in Archidona (Malaga province): discs, stars and acorns. Studied and illustrated in Lorenzo Santana Rodríguez' La pila bautismal recreada por Moure, in La Laguna y su parroquia matriz. Estudios sobre la Iglesia de la Concepción (2016: 358-375) [https://www.academia.edu/38546299/La_pila_bautismal_recreada_por_Moure] [accessed 3 April 2022]; Santana Rodríguez (ibid.) mentions an eagle amid the busy vegetal decoration, also including fleurs-de-lis and lion heads, both of which, argues the author, are the emblem of the Perdomo family, likely donors of the font to the church, according to this author; the same author rejects the 1497 dating and proposes instead 1556 on documentary evidence;

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 28.490556, -16.320278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 28° 29′ 26″ N, 16° 19′ 13″ W

UTM: 28R 370773 3152256

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: ceramic, glazed ceramic

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 96 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * in Lorenzo Santana Rodríguez (2016) [originally from the Inventario de bienes muebles de la parroquia. AAVV [1999], ficha 226]

REFERENCES

Gestoso y Pérez, José, "Cerámica sevillana", 27 (1919), 1er trimestre, Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, 1919, pp. 2-19; r["References"]

Gestoso y Pérez, José, Historia de los barros vidriados sevillanos: desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días, Sevilla: Imp. La Andalucía Moderna, 1903

Hernández Perera, José, "Una pila bautismal de cerámica vidriada sevillana en Gran Canaria", 25, 99 (1952: jul./sept.), Archivo español de arte, 1952, pp. 287; r["References"]

Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985

Rodríguez Moure, José, Historia de la Parroquia Matriz de Ntra. Sra. de la Concepción de la ciudad de La Laguna, Laguna de Tenerife: Curbelo, 1915

Wimmer, Ludvig, Dobefonten i Aakirkeby Kirke, Copenhagen: [s.n.], 1887