Wismar No. 1 / Wismer
Image copyright Julen Bengoetxea, 2024
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Results: 91 records
B1R01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - cruciferous halo - Virgin Mary - St. John the Baptist
Scene Description: tentative identification of the two kneeling figures on the sides of Christ -- the figure partially visible on the left is probably Paul, holding a sword, from the second set of six Apostles
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B1R02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key - detail
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B1R02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key
Scene Description: one very large and ornate key
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B1R03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross - holding book in left hand - detail
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B1R03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross - holding book in left hand
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B1R04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - Evangelist - St. John - holding goblet or chalice - detail
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B1R04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - Evangelist - St. John - holding goblet or chalice
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B1R05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Judas Thaddeus - holding club - holding book in left hand
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B1R06: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidenitfied
Scene Description: to the right after Jude Thadeus
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B1R07: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidenitfied
Scene Description: a second one, to the left of the Crucifixion scene
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B1R08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - holding book in left hand
Scene Description: the figure on the left is an unidentified apostel, one of the set of six between the Majestas Domini and the Crucifixion
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B1R08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - holding book in left hand
Scene Description: Mary on the left; john on the right; all figures haloed, Christ with cruciferous nimbus
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B1R09: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail
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B1R09: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell
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B1R10: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - with cross and banner - soldiers sleep
Scene Description: the banner (?) held by Christ in his left hand is an odd-looking object
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B1R11: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension - Apostles present
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B1R12: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidentified
Scene Description: immediately to the right of the Ascension scene
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B1R13: Apostle or saint - holding book in both hands - unidentified
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B1R14: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidentified
Scene Description: hooded; the right hand, palm in, to his chest
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B1R15: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Less - holding fuller's club? - detail
Scene Description: odd double hood or helmet; or, is it James the Greater's pilgrim hat? ditto the staff or club in his right hand
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B1R15: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - holding staff - wearing pilgrim garb
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B1R16: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Bartholomew - holding flaying knife
Scene Description: there should be no doubt as to the identity of the object in his right hand
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B1R17: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - holding sword in left and - holding book in right hand
Scene Description: the kneeling figure on the right is part of the Christ in Majesty scene
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B2R01: New Testament - Public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness - detail
Scene Description: the plant or tree by which Christ prays probably a symbol for the wilderness
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B2R01: New Testament - Public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness - detail
Scene Description: the pile of rocks between Satan and Christ probably a symbol for the mountain
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B2R01: New Testament - Public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness
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B2R02: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - holding book in left hand? - detail
Scene Description: or, is it a water container?
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B2R02: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - holding book in left hand? - detail
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B2R02: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - holding book in left hand?
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B2R03: New Testament - Public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?
Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp
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B2R03: New Testament - Public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?
Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgins?
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B2R04: New Testament - Public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?
Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgin?
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B2R05: New Testament - Public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?
Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgin?
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B2R06: New Testament - Public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?
Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgin?
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B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows - detail
Scene Description: the figure in the extreme right arch is not part of the scene, but one of several crowned figures
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B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows - detail
Scene Description: the third figure in the group; notice the book with straps
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B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows - detail
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B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows
Scene Description: the scene involves three figures over three arches: on the left a haloed female (Mary); in the centre Christ, naked to the waist, wearing the crown of thorns; his hands tied up; cruciferous halo; on the right a haloed male figure, his right hand raised with palm out, a book in his left (John)
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B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
![the first [L-.R] figure of the set of five](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140806138_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the first [L-.R] figure of the set of five
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B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
Scene Description: this is figure number five, located just left of the Flagellation scene
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B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
Scene Description: these are figures three and four of the set of five
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B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
Scene Description: there are five of them; the banners are similar but the objects they carry are distinctly different -- these are the first [L->R} of the five; the figure partially visible in the left arch belongs to the Man of Sorrows scene
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B2R09: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
![this is the second [L->R] figure of the set of five](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140806139_compressed.png)
Scene Description: this is the second [L->R] figure of the set of five
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B2R10: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
![this is the third [L->R] figure of the set of five](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140806140_compressed.png)
Scene Description: this is the third [L->R] figure of the set of five
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B2R11: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
![this is the fourth [L->R] figure of the set of five](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140806141_compressed.png)
Scene Description: this is the fourth [L->R] figure of the set of five
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B2R12: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object
![this is the fifth [L->R] figure of the set of five](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140806142_compressed.png)
Scene Description: this is the fifth [L->R] figure of the set of five
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B2R13: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation - detail
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B2R13: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation
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UBF01: human figure - male - standing
Scene Description: one of three supporting the base
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UBF02: human figure - male - standing - detail
Scene Description: one of three supporting the base
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UBF02: human figure - male - standing - detail
Scene Description: one of three supporting the base
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UBF02: human figure - male - standing
Scene Description: one of three supporting the base
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UBF03: human figure - male - standing - detail
Scene Description: one of three supporting the base
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UBF03: human figure - male - standing - detail
Scene Description: one of three supporting the base
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UBF03: human figure - male - standing
Scene Description: one of three supporting the base
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright Julen Bengoetxea, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Julen Bengoetxea
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view of font
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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - bearing fruit
Scene Description: all around the lower end of the basin
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view of basin - rim - detail
Scene Description: one of the two anchors for the old font cover
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view of basin - rim - detail
Scene Description: one of the two anchors for the old font cover
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the 'ornament' at the bottom may have been originally a drain hole
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design element - architectural - arcade - crocketed arches - arches on columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: most of the arches in this register, as with the one avove, are pointed, but the scene of the Flagellation shows rounded arches instead -- notice how the central support column serves also as the scouring pillar to which Christ is tied -- Pontius Pilate's servants use different types of scourges: one is birch, the other a whip of the 'cat o'nine tails' type
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - on columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the arch-heads crowned
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inscription
Scene Description: in black lettering, right below the upper rim; very faint and unreadable now
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: view from the chancel
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: seen from the harbour
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lubalo, 2011
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Siegfried von Brilon, 2013
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
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view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior in context - southeast end
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior in context
![view of Wismar from the northwest in 1640: the three tallest buildings: St. Nikolai, on the left, St. Marien, centre, and St. Iurgen [George], on the right](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0140806069_compressed.png)
Scene Description: view of Wismar from the northwest in 1640: the three tallest buildings: St. Nikolai, on the left, St. Marien, centre, and St. Iurgen [George], on the right
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Image Source: ill. from Merian d. Ä., Matthäus' Topographia Germaniae, Bd.14: Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris (Niedersachsen), Frankfurt am Main 1653)
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in a chapel on the north side
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view of church interior - Holy Rood
Scene Description: 15thC -- view from the nave
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail
Scene Description: in the 18thC 'Taufgehäuse'
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view of church interior - canopy, baldachin - canopy
Scene Description: the 18thC 'Taufgehäuse'
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animal - claw - 3
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animal - claw - detail
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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information
Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown
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view of font cover - detail
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view of font cover
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information
Scene Description: posted outside the church
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02581WIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2014-08-06
Font Date: 1335?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hans Apengeter
Cognate Fonts: Fonts at the cathedral in Schwerin and at the St. Jakobs- and Dionysiuskirche in Gadebusch
Church / Chapel Name: St. Nikolai Kirche [originally from St. Marienkirche]
Font Location in Church: Inside the St. Nikolai church, in N side chapel off the nave
Church Notes: present church built 1381-1487; storm destroyed spire and vault in 1703; restored 19thC; minor damage in WWII, but items brought into St. Nikolai from much-damaged St. Georgen's and St. Marien's
Church Address: Sankt-Nikolai-Kirchehof, Wismar 23966 - Germany
Site Location: Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the E22-105, 30 km N of Schwerin, 45 km E of Lübeck, near the Polish border
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Ratzeburg
Additional Comments: painted font (many traces of paint and gilding on the surfaces)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of bronze noted in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland und Polen' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzefünten_in_Nordostdeutschland_und_Polen] [accessed 30 March 2010]: "Heute in St. Nikolai, Wismar. Zuschreibung als Vorbild der Fünte der Lübecker Marienkirche". On-site notes: a bronze font somewhat similar in general structure to the one at St. Mary's cathedral, Hildesheim, and cognate of the fonts at nearby Schwerin and Gadebusch: a bucket-shaped basin finely carved is supported by three kneeling/crouching figures; the sides of the basin are divided into two registers, each with an arcade of pointed crocketed arches and pinnacles, containing scenes and figures. UPPER REGISTER [L->R]: 1)Christ in Majesty with two kneeling figures (Mary and John?); 2)Peter; 3)Andrew; 4)John; 5)Jude Thadeus; 6)unidentified apostle; 7)unidentified apostle ; 8)Crucifixion with Mary and John in attendance; 9)Harrowing of Hell; 10)Resurrection; two sleeping soldiers by the tomb; 11)Ascension; 12-14)three unidentified apostles; 15)James the Less? he holds an object in his right hand that could be a staff or a fullers pole; 16)Bartholomew, holding a flaying knife in his right hand; 17)Paul, holding a book in his right hand, a sword in his left.
The font is surrounded [protected?] by an odd railing made of thick knotted metal wire "Teufelsgitter", said to have been added to the font in the 16th century. The font cover of wood provided with a pulley system; it has an octagonal base with eight supporting colonnettes. [cf. Index entry for Wismar No. 2 for a stone font at St. Nikolai]
The font is surrounded [protected?] by an odd railing made of thick knotted metal wire "Teufelsgitter", said to have been added to the font in the 16th century. The font cover of wood provided with a pulley system; it has an octagonal base with eight supporting colonnettes. [cf. Index entry for Wismar No. 2 for a stone font at St. Nikolai]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julen Bengoetxea for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 662004 5974718
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.895558, 11.465533
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 53′ 44.01″ N, 11° 27′ 55.92″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: [there may have been originally a drain in it]
Rim Thickness: 5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 94 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm
Basin Depth: 79-80 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 70 cm [+8 cm of frill]
Basin Total Height: 78 cm*
Height of Base: 35 cm
Height of Side Columns: 48 cm [total height of the figures]
Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site / *[NB: the height of the basin is less than the depth because the bottom is rounded]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the side of the font, directly below the rim
Inscription Notes: black-lettering; very faint now
Inscription Source: Image Area
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley system
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]