Carcassonne No. 1

There is a ca. 1871 pencil sketch by Victor Ruprich-Robert "Fonts baptismaux dans l'église Saint-Nazaire de Carcassonne" of the object catalogued; the drawing shows the lower base in a detail that it is no longer discernible on the actual work [https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/fonts-baptismaux-dans-leglise-saint-nazaire-de-carcassonne-62906] [accessed 29 September 2022]. The entry above gives further details of the dawing: "crayon sur papier contrecollé -- History - Provenance: jusqu'en 1981, dans la collection des descendants de Victor-Marie-Charles Ruprich-Robert (petits-enfants et arrière-petits-enfants) -- 1981, accepté par l'Etat à titre de don des descendants de l'architecte pour le musée d'Orsay (comité du 19/02/1981, conseil du 25/02/1981, arrêté du 04/03/1981) -- 1981, attribué au musée d'Orsay, Paris". Described in the Dictionnaire des églises… (1966-) simply as a 12th-century stone baptismal font. A more accurate description of the actual font is given by Devezes (2001: 46 & ills.) Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM11001839]: "Cuve baptismale servant de bénitier, de forme octogonale, à la base carrée. La cuvette est circulaire. Le pied présente huit faces [,…] La cuve est du 12e siècle, mais le pied est probablement du 15e siècle […] H = 119 (Hauteur totale) ; Dimension sans la base : h = 86. Diamètre extérieur : d = 96. Diamètre intérieur : d = 66". Illustrated in Mémoire [AP11W00320]. On-site notes: the baptismal font found in the cathedral of St-Nazaire did not match the description of the Dictionnaire… [cf. supra]; the font is plain, with a quasi-cruciform shape of the top outer part of the basin; the font is made of streaked marble and it is more likely dated to the 1430s, which would put it in the same period as the chapel itself. [NB: the object listed in Palissy and dated 12th-century but the date is hard to accept, as the helicoidal arrises are usually characteristic of late-Gothic fonts]/