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BBU01: design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: two-strand, a/p illustration in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )

INFORMATION

FontID: 04346RES
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Louis
Church Patron Saints: St. Louis
Country Name: France
Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located 16 km NNW of Compiègne
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century
Font Notes:
Illustrated without description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ); it is a former historiated capital hollowed out to serve as holy-water stoup; the illustration shows a plain upper square surface under which runs a two-strand braid; below it, the visible side of the capital has what appears to be a scene of the Fall of Man with Adam on the left taking the apple from Eve's -in the centre- right hand, while her left hand extends to the mouth of the serpent wrapped on the tree at the right. The astragale and a glimpse of plain round column can also be seen.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: capital
Basin Exterior Shape: capital

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-