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Results: 5 records

B01: design element - motifs - palmette - in a circle - 8

two on each side of the basin, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)
Scene Description: two on each side of the basin, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)

BBL01: design element - patterns - sawtooth

along the bottom of the basin, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)
Scene Description: along the bottom of the basin, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)

LB01: design element - motifs - leaf - acanthus

on the capitals of the columns, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)
Scene Description: on the capitals of the columns, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)

LB02: design element - motifs - pearl

a row at the astragale of the base capitals, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)
Scene Description: a row at the astragale of the base capitals, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)

LB03: design element - motifs - leaf

at the cornes of the bases of the colomns, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)
Scene Description: at the cornes of the bases of the colomns, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 501)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04718HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Germain-de-Paris
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Meulan, arrondissement de Mantes-la-Jolie
Century and Period: 12th century (early), Romanesque
Font Notes:
A very elegant and svelte baptismal font described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000), where it is dated to the first half of the 12th century when the church was built by Agnès de Montfort. It is a limestone font consisting of a square basin, rather shallow for the period, and ornamented with encircled leaf (palmette?) motif; the lower edge of the basin has a saw-thouth pattern. There is no underbowl nor chamfering either. Two slender columns support the basin; at the top they end in lovely capitals ornamented with roll moulding, acanthus leaves and a band of pearl motif; at the bottom another roll moulding and the bases of the columns are rounded with leaf motid at 90-degree angles. The plinth is cross-shaped

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: it appears to be a flat wooden lid

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000