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B01: design element - motifs - geometric
Scene Description: squares and circles
INFORMATION
FontID: 03932PIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Canton de Beauchamp, arrondissement de Pontoise
Century and Period: 16th century
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an oval mounted font of the 16th century. It has a protruding lip-like rim under which, on the upper sides of the basin, runs a band of square and round indented motifs. The inside of the basin is divided into two round wells. The pedestal base, also oval, is adorned with a moulding.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round (two wells)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: Flat plain wooden lid hinged in the middle
REFERENCES
Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992