Rouen No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 02828ROU

Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)

Museum and Inventory Number: reported in the Musée des antiquités, Rouen, ca. 1890 [now Musée départemental des Antiquités, now Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen]

Church/Chapel: [original church unknown -- font now in a museum]

Country Name: France

Location: Seine-Maritime, Normandie

Directions to Site: The museum is on rue Louis Ricard, 198 rue Bauvoisine, 76000 Rouen, France -- Tel.: +33 2 35 15 69 22

Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Rouen

Date: 1415

Century and Period: 15th century (early), Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font

Font Notes: Click to view

Lethaby (1893) reports another lead font "in the Museum of Antiquities in Rouen, this one has a long inscription and date, 1415."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: [? / 1415 / ?]

Inscription Source: Lethaby (1893)

LID INFORMATION

Date: N//A

REFERENCES

Lethaby, William Richard, Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English [...] with illustrations, London; New York: Macmillan & co., 1893