Cousolre No. 1 / Cousolr / Curtis Solra

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Results: 15 records

RS01: human figure - head, face or mask - winged - with cross

in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Scene Description: in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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RS02: design element - motifs - foliage

in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Scene Description: in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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RS03: design element - motifs - unidentified

appears to be a vase or similar; too eroded for identificacion -- in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Scene Description: appears to be a vase or similar; too eroded for identificacion -- in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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RS04: symbol - grapes and vine leaves

or are they wings? -- in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Scene Description: or are they wings? -- in one of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Font image
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Image Source: Rolland ([1928?]: [555])
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design element - motifs - foliage

in all the spandrels of the two arcades on the sides of the basin
Scene Description: in all the spandrels of the two arcades on the sides of the basin
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Image Source: Rolland ([1928?]: [555])
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

on two sides of the basin; six arches on each side
Scene Description: on two sides of the basin; six arches on each side
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Image Source: Rolland ([1928?]: [555])
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Apostle or saint - St. Walbert and St. Bertille - Tree of Life

Cloquet interprets the scene as the Devil (the lio) tempting Adam & Eve; this is highly unlikely since the figures are depicted fully dressed in medieval attire, the woman holding an open book on her left hand
Scene Description: Cloquet interprets the scene as the Devil (the lio) tempting Adam & Eve; this is highly unlikely since the figures are depicted fully dressed in medieval attire, the woman holding an open book on her left hand
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Rolland ([1928?]: [555])
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design element - motifs - foliage

on the angles of the underbowl
Scene Description: on the angles of the underbowl
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Image Source: Rolland ([1928?]: [555])
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant

Cloquet identifies it with the Devil tempting Adam & Eve; Ghislain sees "la victoire du christianisme sur le paganisme" [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: Cloquet identifies it with the Devil tempting Adam & Eve; Ghislain sees "la victoire du christianisme sur le paganisme" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 40)
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view of church exterior - west tower

Font image
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2015 by Chatsam [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Cousolre_ext_5.JPG] [accessed 15 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - east view

Font image
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Chatsam [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Cousolre_ext_4.JPG] [accessed 15 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain

view of church exterior in context

the church in the context of the centre ville
Scene Description: the church in the context of the centre ville
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Chatsam [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rue_Cousolre.JPG] [accessed 15 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain

design element - motifs - flat moulding

all around the opening of the inner basin
Scene Description: all around the opening of the inner basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - foliage motif?

on one of the sides of the basin; arguable how 'human' the mask is; perhaps simian? -- "Reproduction gauche et dégénérée d'un motif iconographique, qui abonde dans les fonts du baptême, à savoir une tête diabolique mordillant les rameaux de l'arbre paradisiaque" (Cloquet)
Scene Description: on one of the sides of the basin; arguable how 'human' the mask is; perhaps simian? -- "Reproduction gauche et dégénérée d'un motif iconographique, qui abonde dans les fonts du baptême, à savoir une tête diabolique mordillant les rameaux de l'arbre paradisiaque" (Cloquet)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02843COU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1155-1160?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font / affiliation Beauchevain [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: Chéreng, Gand, Gentinnes...
Museum: Musée des Beaux-arts de Lille, inv. 1912.L.A.P.I.
Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne église Notre-Dame de Cousolre, aujourd'hui rebaptisée église Saint-Martin.
Font Location in Church: [In a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [later dedicated to St. Martin]
Previous Font Location(s): originally from Notre-Dame de Cousolre
Church Address: 59149 Cousolre, France
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: The font was reported by Cloquet already in the Musée des Beaux-arts de Lille ca. 1895. Cousolre itself is near Beaumont, about 30 km SW of Charleroi
Historical Region: Avesnois
Additional Comments: recovered font / disused font (MUST USE -- now in a museum: replaced by a new font in 1525, it was left in a garden opposite the church; later used as water trough; discovered by Jennepin ca. 1880 in the courtyard of a certain Désir, semi-covered in manure; taken to the school garden and, pater, in 1882, offered to the mueseum at Lille)
Font Notes:
Baptismal font noted in Jennepin (1887). A square baptismal font of the Namurois group with a single column support at the base; the four sides of the basin are ornamented thus: 1)a large lion regardant occupying most the left and centre and a human figure (male on the left holding a staff? on his right hand, female on the right holding a book on her left hand) on either side of a tall accanthus-like plant; 2 and 3)blind arcade of 6 (?) round arches; 4)a human mask from whose open mouth emerge the branches of a vine/garland. Cloquet (1895) says of the first side images: "il est évident que nous sommes, comme à Gand, en présence d'Adam et d'Ève, écoutant les exhortations du démon." In the earlier article by Cloquet (1890, p. 417), he describes the scenes depicted on this font as "le triomphe de saint Walbert et de son épouse Bertille". Noted and illustrated in Ronse (1929), who describes the scene as the Fall [NB: the female figure appears to hold an open book to her bossom; New Eve? Mary?; both figures wearing long skirts]. Described and illustrated in Oursel (1994), who mentions that St. Walbert was the founder of the Cousolre church, hence his identification of the scene with his wife St. Bertile. Oursel (ibid.) dates the font to the mid-12th century. Listed in Drake (2002) as a Mosan font. Drake (ibid.) mentions that "by tradition, when the font still stood in the church of Cousolre, it was known as 'La pierre de Walbert'. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of grey limestone ca. 1155-1160, with Tournai influences, and remarks on the detail similarities with the fonts at Termonde, Siennes, Nivelles, Heel, etc. Ghislain (ibid.) identifies the couple as Walbert and Bertille, "confortés par la présence de l'Arbre de la Vie, image de la croix et du Paradis bien merité." The spandrels of the upper side, at the angles of the basin opening, are decorated, three with foliage motifs, and one with a winged feline mask with a cross in its mouth.

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.245222, 4.151362
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 14′ 42.8″ N, 4° 9′ 4.9″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (grey)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 66.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 35 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 85 x 88.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 315-316 and ills. on p. 315
  • Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 416-417
  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 43, 176
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 2 and p. 775 footnote 3
  • Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009
  • Jennepin, A., "Notice sur une vasque de fonts baptismaux pédiculés éxécutés au X ou XIe siècle pour l'église Notre-Dame de Cousolre", XX, Annales du Circle archéologique de Mons, 1887
  • Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994, p. 169, 230 and pl. 105
  • Rolland, Paul, "Les fonts baptismaux tournaisiens: un produit artistique d'exportation aux XIe. et XIIe. siècles", [?], [?], Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, [1928?], pp. p. [555]-561; p. [555]-556
  • Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929, p. 28, 30 and fig. 40