Wadsworth Atheneum No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04034WAD
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Cahn (1979) gives the font of the Parma baptistery and the basin in Carcasonne as related in the iconography
Museum: The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. USA, No. 1949.180
Church / Chapel Name: [orig. church unknown]
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Site Location: Connecticut, United States, North America
Font Notes:
Listed, described and illustrated in Cahn (1979): 11th century marble holy-water stoup; hemispheric shape and ornamented with foliage motif which Cahnn relates to the fonts at the Parma Baptistery and the basin in Carcasonne, as well as to the ornamentation found in some English lead fonts. Cahn gives the origin as Bardini, Florence [probably Stefano Bardini of Florence?] (1930) and J. Brummer, presumably the original church name is not known.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 35.5 cm
Basin Total Height: 25.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 25.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Cahn (1979, v. 1, p. 26)

REFERENCES

  • Cahn, Walter, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections (2 vols.), New York [v.1]; Turnhout, Belgium [v.2]: B. Franklin [v. 1]; Brepols [v.2], 1979-1999, vol. 1, p. 26