Rouen No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02828ROU
Object Type: Baptismal Font2, fragment
Font Date: 1415
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Museum: reported in the Musée des antiquités, Rouen, ca. 1890 [now Musée départemental des Antiquités, now Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen]
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown -- font now in a museum]
Site Location: Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France, Europe
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
Font Notes:
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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 Text: [? / 1415 / ?]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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, p. 64