Charleville-Mezieres No. 2 / Charleville-Mézières
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B01: design element - motifs - vine - grapevine?
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1902: fig. 399)
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1902: fig. 399)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03845CHA
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de Mézières
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Charleville-Mézières is about 50 kms S of Dinant.
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: The is another entry in the Index for Chaleville-Mézières, but it may be located in Charleville, while this stoup is in Mézières
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Enlart (1902, p. 785 fig. 399) illustrates an octagonal mounted marble stoup at Mézières: the basin sides are ornamented with a grape (?) vine, while the rest of the object has a number of mouldings framing the different volumes of the basin, the stem and the lower base.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902