Guebwiller No. 2 / Gawiller
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04504GUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1542
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid)
Museum: Musée du Florival, rue du quatre février 1, Guebwiller
Church / Chapel Name: In a museum [orig. from Issenheim]
Font Location in Church: In the museum's south gallery of the cloister
Site Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 23 NNW of Mulhouse, SW of Colmar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Font Notes:
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Described in the Inventaire général... (1972) as a mid-16th century baptismal font; the monolithic unmounted font is octagonal with chamfered upper and lower ends; one of the sides bears the date 1542 inside a "cartuche". The inside well is hemispherical. The source [cf. supra] gives its provenance as Issenheim and moved later to the Florival museum; it has been repaired with mortar and reinforced with an iron bar.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 366300 5307658
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: Inventaire général... (1972)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin
Inscription Text: "1542"
Inscription Source: Inventaire général... (1972)
REFERENCES
- Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale d'Alsace, Haut-Rhin: canton Guebwiller (2 vols.), Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1972, vol. 1, p. 79