Guebwiller No. 2 / Gawiller

INFORMATION

FontID: 04504GUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée du Florival, rue du quatre février 1, Guebwiller
Church/Chapel: In a museum [orig. from Issenheim]
Country Name: France
Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located 23 NNW of Mulhouse, SW of Colmar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Font Location in Church: In the museum's south gallery of the cloister
Date: 1542
Century and Period: 16th century(mid)
Font Notes:
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