Aucun No. 1 / Aucu / Aucunh / Aucuno / Cun

Results: 18 records

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B01: animal - bird - dove - facing each other - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

B02: animal - mammal - goat - 2 - at a tree

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

B03: hunting scene - boar hunting?

Scene Description: a horseman with a lance and two dags attack what appears to be a boar

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

B04: animal - mammal - quadruped - boar?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

B05: animal - mammal - quadruped - dog? - passant

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

animal - bird - dove - drinking from fountain - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

animal - mammal - bull - 2 - facing each other

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - 2

Scene Description: only the hind quarters visible here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: several of them, all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta in September 2006 [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: separating the basin side from the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta in September 2006 [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of stoup - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02528AUC

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Félix de Gerone

Church Patron Saints: St. Felix

Church Location: 65400 Aucun, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Aucun is located between Salles (N) and Arrens-Marsous (S), in the Tarbes area, 8 kms WSW of Argelès-Gazost on the road to Laruns.

Historical Region: Val d'Azun

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, at the "cagot" entrance

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view

Described by Chastel (1966) as a wall-mounted 16th century holy-water stoup, "decor sculpte". The Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ), however, describes the stoup and the baptismal font in this church as being of the late Middle Ages and ornamented with low-relief scenes. On-site notes: the holy-water stoup located near the "cagots" entrance has a rather irregular round basin, roughly hemispherical, the underbowl chamfered, raised on a plain cylindrical upper base and a quasi-hemispheric inverted lower base with what appear to be either ball motifs or heads, very worn. There are scenes ornamenting the sides of the basin and underbowl, all rather crude and appearing very eroded [NB: on closer observation, however, it looks as if the work was never finished: some figures are clearly carved and the background surface is polished and finished, but other areas show sketched figures and the stone surface still rough]. The basin register displays (L->R): two doves facing each other; two goats at a tree; a hunting scene containing a horseman with a lance, a four-legged animal (dog?) facing right and biting the neck of another four-legged animal (boar?) and one other dog facing left. The underbowl register displays (L->R): two groups of two four-legged animals; two doves drinking from a fountain. [NB: it is as if a much less skilled carver had attempted to create a stoup along the general design of the baptismal font in this church, and given up halfway through in view of the results].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 729051 4761779

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble?

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: pedestal stoup

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 7-9 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 43 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm

Basin Depth: 17 cm

Basin Total Height: 30 cm

Height of Base: 62 cm

Height of Central Column: 40 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966