Viny / Vimy?
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02873VIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais / Nord?, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: There is no Viny to be found in France. It is probably a typo in either Enlart or Cloquet for Vimy which is in the Pas-de-Calais area where many of these fonts are found.
Font Notes:
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Included by Cloquet in the list of northern French fonts made of Tournai blue marble (Cloquet, 1895)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown
REFERENCES
- Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 319