Chapelle-de-Brain / La Chapelle-de-Brain
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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: below a moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 04005CHA
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Melaine
Church Patron Saints: St. Melaine [Melanius, Mellion]
Country Name: France
Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne
Directions to Site: In the canton de Redon, arrondissement de Redon
Date: ca. 1459?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: Other such double-fonts in the same area
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed and described in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a 15th century double-font of octagonal basins adorned with foliage motifs on the lower part of the basin sides. The basins, one large and the other shorter and smaller, appear to have been either reconstructed or greatly repaired; the larger basin has a dome brass cover topped with a Latin cross finial.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)(double-font)
Basin Interior Shape: round (both)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (both)
LID INFORMATION
Material:
metal,
brass
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000