Brussels No. 3 / Bruxelles
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Results: 4 records
B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon
Scene Description: Two dragons facing the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles, 1968
Image Source: illustration in Jansen (1968)
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B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles, 1968
Image Source: illustration in Jansen (1968)
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B03: animal - mammal - lion? - 3
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles, 1968
Image Source: illustration in Jansen (1968)
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view of basin - fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles, 1968
Image Source: illustration in Jansen (1968)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 02873ROT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles / Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis - Brussel
Church/Chapel: From the Chapelle de Ten Akker à Rotselaar
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 2 508 32 11
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest ou Brussel
Directions to Site: address for the Kapel O.L.V. van de Akker: Torenstraat, 3110 Rotselaar, Belgium
Font Location in Church: It had been used as a doorstep at Ten Akker
Century and Period: 12th century [Jansen], Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Church Notes: Other interesting fonts in this museum.
Font Notes:
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All that is left now is a fragment of the basin of a Tournai font. According to Jansen the piece of blue Tournai marble was discovered by count J. de Borchgrave d'Altena and was donated to the museum in 1941 by the abbé Verpoilt, doyen d'Aarschot; the stone had been used in the Ten Akker chapel as a door-step and only one of the sides has retained the imagery: two winged dragons facing right. Jansen adds a few other drawings of animals (for two other sides?) and remarks on the influence of oriental textiles in the carving (Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, 1964)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.84168, 4.358238
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 50′ 30.05″ N, 4° 21′ 29.66″ E
UTM: 31U 595629 5633098
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (blue Tournai marble)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: Probably a centre hole as in most of the fonts of this type.
Height of Basin Side: 20 cm (Jansen's)
Basin Total Height: 20 cm (Jansen's)
Trapezoidal Basin: 106 cm (Jansen's) (by 76 cm fragment))
REFERENCES
Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin fu Moyen Age, Brussels: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1964