Son nr. Rethel

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animal - mammal - dog - chasing a hare or rabbit

Image Source: Photograph courtesy of C.S. Drake, 2002

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 5 - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital image in Jean-Luc Collignon [http://jeanluccollignon.blog4ever.net/ainsi-font-les-fonts-de-son] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: in the top right-hand corner of the same side

Image Source: Photograph courtesy of C.S. Drake, 2002

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design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the lower base

Image Source: digital image in Jean-Luc Collignon [http://jeanluccollignon.blog4ever.net/ainsi-font-les-fonts-de-son] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a broad one all around

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches - palmette roundels

Scene Description: one of two; similar but not identical

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches - palmette roundels

Scene Description: one of two; similar but not identical -- notice the damage to the upper left corner of the basin

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Son_(Ardennes)_église_(1).JPG] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02837SON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean Baptiste

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 08300 Son, France

Country Name: France

Location: Ardennes, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located on the D35, off the D946, 10 km NW of Rethel, in the canton Château-Porcien

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims

Historical Region: Pays rethélois, Ardennes

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to C.S. Drake for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Drake (2002): "At Son the side which portrays a dog in pursuit of a rabbit has a disc containing an eight-leaf motif at top right, above the hindquarters of the dog." Drake (ibid.) lists in the group of square Mosan fonts. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM08000539]: "Fonts baptismaux en pierre gris bleu. Sur le dessus de la cuve, qui est ronde [cf. infra], les écoinçons sont ornés de gros fleurons ressemblant à des fleurs de lys, comme les cuves baptismales de Chaumont et de la Val Roy [...] 12e siècle". Described and illustrated in Jean-Luc Collignon [http://jeanluccollignon.blog4ever.net/ainsi-font-les-fonts-de-son] [accessed 12 June 2016]. The font consists of a square table-top basin decorated with an acanthus vine in roundels bearing fruit on two sides. a third has an blind arcade of five round arches on columns with capitals and bases, and the fourth side shows two quadrupeds, a larger one, probably a dog, chasing a smallr one with large ears, rabbit or hare; there is an encircled rosette [cf. supra] to the right of the dog's hind quarters; the basin is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base, and a round-to-square lower base decorated with a broad moulding that has a lanceolated leaf at each angle. There is considerable damage to the upper surface of the basin where the two metal staples of the old cover were; the top surface of the basin is much eroded and the decoration in the spandrels is not easily discernible now.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.580853, 4.276058

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 34′ 51.07″ N, 4° 16′ 33.81″ E

UTM: 31U 592243 5492812

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire viséen)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm**

Basin Depth: 25 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 81.5 x 84 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * "Dimension approximative", Palissy [ref.: PM08000539] / ** Jean-Luc Collignon (2014?)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002