Wadsworth Atheneum No. 1

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the basin sides

INFORMATION

FontID: 04034WAD
Museum and Inventory Number: The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. USA
Church/Chapel: [orig. church unknown]
Country Name: United States
Location: Connecticut
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Century and Period: 11th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Cahn (1979) gives the font of the Parma baptistery and the basin in Carcasonne as related in the iconography
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