Charleville-Mezieres No. 2 / Charleville-Mézières

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B01: design element - motifs - vine - grapevine?

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03845CHA
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de Mézières
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
Site Location: Ardennes, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Charleville-Mézières is about 50 kms S of Dinant.
Font Notes:
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, p. 785 fig. 399