Caen No. 1

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B01: design element - patterns - interlace

Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Lasteyrie (1929)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04697CAE
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée des antiquaires de Normandie [form. Musée de la Société française d'archéologie]
Church/Chapel: [now in a museum]
Country Name: France
Location: Marne, Grand-Est
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Listed and illustrated in Lasteyrie (1929) as one of a group of early -11th-12th century- French fonts of tub-shape design; this one has a large and very regular pattern of interlace with three-strand bands, their upper and lower loops crossed by another three-strand band, one at top and the other at the bottom of the basin. One of the sides of the basin shows considerable damage. The font is listed in Lasteyrie's time [ca. 1929] at the Musée de la Société française d'archéologie in Caen. [NB: there is another early font, an octagonal lead font, listed by Enlart (1902) and Huard (1928) at the "Musée de Caen." - cf. Index entry for Le Mesnil-Mauger].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929