Zellwiller
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: in the upper and lower spandrels
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
design element - motifs - palmette - in a circle
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: the upper right area of the basin is a reconstruction, showing the moulding as it probably was originally -- notice also the large hole drilled above the foot; such holes tend to indicate that the objects was used as planter in a garden after being disused from the church
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - patterns - interlace - linked circles
Scene Description: faux circles created with the stems of the palmettes
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the centre drain
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the modern church in Zellwiller
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernard Chenal, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2010 by Bernard Chenal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zellwiller_067.JPG] [accessed 19 August 2017]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
view of font in context
Scene Description: as exhibited in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame (Strasbourg) in August 2002
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02930ZEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg, France
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 67140 Zellwiller, France
Country Name: France
Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D62, 4 km ESE of Barr, 10 km S of Obernai, SSW of Strasbourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1140?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: atelier d'Eschau [Palissy]
Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00024072]: "1ère mention d'une église en 1288 ; reconstruction de la nef en 1764 puis du choeur, de la tour latérale et de la sacristie ; en 1836 la nef est prolongée vers l'ouest ; en 1862 destruction de l'ancienne tour et en 1863 construction du clocher porche actuel, il abrite une statue en grès de saint Martin ; dans l'enclos un ancien ossuaire servant de chapelle funéraire, datant peut-être du 18e siècle".
Font Notes:
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Listed in Enlart (1902) among a group of 12th century footless tub-shaped fonts ornamented with a blind arcade. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67001674]: "Fonts baptismaux grès (rose) réalisés vers 1140 [...] plan (circulaire) [...] Bord supérieur de la cuve abîmé [...] ornementation (feuille d'acanthe) [...] Pieds séparés l'un de l'autre par des arcades romanes [...] Atelier d'Eschau [...] 2e quart 12e siècle". There are two fonts listed in this church: one is a composite font listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67001679]: "Fonts composites formés d'éléments du 16e siècle ou du 17e siècle [Cuve octogonal sur pied octogonal]: la base et le pied proviennent du jardin du presbytère alors que la cuve provient de la cour de l'école [...] marques de tâcheron sur deux des faces du pied ; sur la première face : V WS SKH, MP, HW, DN, DM ; sur la deuxième face : 16, marque de tâcheron ou nombre 71 ?, trigramme avec deux marques de tâcheron"; the second font is modern, 19th-century [Palissy [ref.: IM67001680]]: "Fût cylindrique à glyphes, cuve à godrons, cinq reliefs sur la partie supérieure dont trois avec tête d'ange et deux à rosace [...] 19e siècle (?)". Noted and illustrated in 'Cuves baptismales et fonts baptismaux : évolution formelle avant le XVIe siècle' [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/CATALOGUES/fontsbapt/fontsbapt_histav16e/html/fontsbapt_histav16e.html] [accessed 19 August 2017]: "ornée de demi-palmettes, attribuée à l’atelier d’ Eschau", with date ca. 1140.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 388870 5361695
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM67001674]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902