Valencia No. 2

Results: 13 records

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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - basilisk?

Scene Description: four pairs of basilisks (?) picking at four monstruous heads

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - 4

Scene Description: each head being picked at by a pair of basilisks (?)

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

view of basin - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

view of basin's top

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

view of context

Scene Description: courtyard of the Museo de Bellas Artes

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

view of stoup

Scene Description: lateral view of the object

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

view of stoup?

Scene Description: side view of the object

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

view of stoup?

Scene Description: front view of the object

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 13, 2001

INFORMATION

FontID: 05125VAL

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Church/Chapel: not in a church

Country Name: Spain

Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana

Font Location in Church: In the Museo de Bellas Artes, on the ground floor, by the courtyard

Century and Period: 12th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: only a fragment of this 12th-century object remains, but it is enough to give an idea of the whole: it consists of a roughly cylindrical basin mounted on a plain round pedestal; the sides of the basin have beautifully rendered motifs, chiefly pairs of birds picking at ugly monstruous heads. The object may have been originally a cloister fountain and later converted to a stoup (or viceversa); there are drain holes at the mouths of the four beasts (not all of them remain). [NB: the fragment that remains now may have been cut thus to have it fit agaiinst a wall or graded surface. It is by no means certain that it was ever used as a font or stoup].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one [fragment]

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: four drain holes

Rim Thickness: 5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 40 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 50 cm

Basin Depth: 23 cm

Basin Total Height: 33 cm

Height of Base: 30 cm

Height of Central Column: 14 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 63 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI