Fogg

INFORMATION

FontID: 04035FOG

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Museum and Inventory Number: The Willaim Hayes Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., USA

Church/Chapel: [cf. museum information]

Country Name: United States

Location: Massachusetts

Font Location in Church: In a museum

Century and Period: 12th century (early), Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Cahn (1979) mentions a font in the Liège Museum (No. 24, inv. #591) and another at the church of St. Martin in Lubbeek (?)

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed, described and illustrated in Cahn (1979). The fragment corresponds approximately to half of the upper rim of a 12th century dark limestone baptismal font of the Mosan type: the rounded basin with four human heads at 90-degree angles; the two heads left on this fragment are typical of such fonts; the space in between has two round arches which contain a large palmette in each; the source mentions "the remains of a framed second panel with a central horned mask a a leaf-like wing" (Ibid., v. 1, p. 190). The same source gives the Brummer Collection as provenance.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one (fragment)

Notes on Measurements: The fragment is 19.7 cm tall and 84 cm long (Cahn, 1979, v. 1, p. 189)

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