Perros-Guirec No. 2
Results: 1 records
B01: human figure - head - Moor - negroid features
INFORMATION
FontID: 04262PER
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Clarté
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located 10 km N of Lannion
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Brieuc et Tréguier
Historical Region: formerly Côtes-du-Nord
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Click to view
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a 15th century stoup ornamented with Moors' heads. Mentioned and partially illustrated in Lefébure's Chapelles de nos campagnes (2000): a 15th-century holy-water stoup ornamented with two heads of pronounced negroid features. Noted in Autissier (2005) as one of a group of baptismal fonts or stoups in this region decorated with heads. [Autissier (ibid.) notes other fonts with heads in this region at: Bécherel, Corseul, Dinan, Erquy, Pleur-Tuit and Saint-Malo].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Autissier, Anne, La sculpture romane en Bretagne, XIe-XIIe siècles, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005
Lefèbure, Christophe, Chapelles de nos campagnes, Paris: Arthaud, 2000