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B04: human figure - long hair - 2

Scene Description: each in one of the arches of the arcade

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: all around the basin sides, with well-defined capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - plant - acanthus

Scene Description: in one of the arches of the arcade; seen here in the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

human figure - artisan - acrobat? - jumping

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch: hands to the stomach and legs bent up in the air - an acrobat?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

human figure - female - standing - with braided hair - hands on her stomach

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

human figure - long hair - wearing a long skirt - with ax

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

human figure - male - bearded - with short hair - wearing a long skirt

seen here in the right arch: he holds on to both columns (Samson identification should probably be ruled out on account of the short hair)

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch: he holds on to both columns (Samson identification should probably be ruled out on account of the short hair)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

human figure - short curly hair - wearing long skirt - with lilly sceptre

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch (Mackeprang identifies two such)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

human figure - short curly hair - wearing long skirt - with lilly sceptre

Scene Description: the second such figure, seen here on he left, as identified in Mackeprang

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

human figure - short hair - wearing a long skirt

Scene Description: seen here in the centre arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch

Scene Description: armory

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - carved panel - detail - Couple - Cow

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - carved panel - detail - Couple - Cow

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - Christ, SS Peter and Paul

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - Christ, SS Peter and Paul

Scene Description: the two side figures are identified in DK entry as Peter (left) and Paul (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Source caption: "Skibets sydportal. Tympanon. Apostlene Peter og Paulus (s. 2473). NE fot. 1985. – Säulenportal ir, Schiffssüdwand. Die Apostel Peter und Paulus."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Skibets sydportal. Tympanon. Apostlene Peter og Paulus (s. 2473). NE fot. 1985. – Säulenportal ir, Schiffssüdwand. Die Apostel Peter und Paulus."

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail - Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - votive ship

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of font in context - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2023 by BSI

view of program - partial

six of the figures on the basin sides -- Source caption: "Fig. 43a-f. Figurer udhugget i arkadefelterne på den romanske døbefont fig. 42 (s. 2494). NE fot. 1985. – Reliefdarstellungen in den Arkad[...]"

Scene Description: six of the figures on the basin sides -- Source caption: "Fig. 43a-f. Figurer udhugget i arkadefelterne på den romanske døbefont fig. 42 (s. 2494). NE fot. 1985. – Reliefdarstellungen in den Arkad[...]"

Image Source: digital image of a 1985 B&W photograph in Danmarks Kirker [http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/uploads/tx_tcchurchsearch/Ribe_2463-2514.pdf] [accessed 4 December 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05404ANS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Anst kirke

Church Location: Vestergyden 14A, 6600 Vejen, Denmark

Country Name: Denmark

Location: Sønderjylland, Syddanmark

Directions to Site: Located off (N) road 32, S of the E20 from Skolding to Esbjerg, 5-6 km E of Vejen

Ecclesiastic Region: Ribe Stift

Historical Region: Ribe amt, Anst herred

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N pillar of the chancel arch

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Arkadenfontene [Mackeprang]

Cognate Fonts: Similar, though not identical, to the font at Trinitatis kirke, in Fredericia, and to the font at nearby Vamdrup

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Danmarks kirker: Ribe amt (Bd. 4, hft. 25: 2481, 2493-2495) as a Romanesque baptismal font in granite dated to ca. 1200, probably the work of the same stonemaster who carried out the south portal of this same church; the basin is almost cylindrical, slightly narrower at the lower end, and is ornamented with an arcade of round arches; in each arch, a human figure [order may not be sequential]: acanthus plant - bird - a human figure with long hair - another such - human figure with long hair and short skirt - human figure with long-handled ax - human figure with short hair and long beard. his hands holding the columns of the arcade (Samson is suggested as possible identification] - human figure with short hair jumping in the air: hands to the stomach and legs up in the air; no skirt - human figure with curly air holds a lilly sceptre. All figures are approximately of the same size and they all wear skirts except the acrobat (?). All the columns of the arcade have well-defined capitals and bases. The base of the font is a cylindrical pedestal with three mouldings; at 90-degree angles of the lowest volume there are four small buttresses which make the lower base square. The granite of the basin is darker than that of the base and has more black and red particles in its composition. The font, which was restored in 1862, was moved to the present position in 1884 for safety reasons. Decribed and illustrated in Mackeprang (1941: 306ff), who groups it with other "arkadenfontene" [=arcade fonts] and obviates its similarity with the basins of the fonts at Egtved, Skærup, St. Trinitatis in Fredericia and, particularly, Vamdrup; he also mentions that two of the figures carry lilly sceptres and one a ladle (?). Lidén (1998: 6-81) argues against Nancke-Krogh's (1995: 125) interpretation of the figure with the ax as St. Olaf (St. Olav) and suggests an identification of the ax-man as "arbetande Adam" [=Adam at work] instead. On-site notes: the arcade on the basin sides has ten arches, nine with human figures but one appears to be a plant.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.48061, 9.23424

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 28′ 50.2″ N, 9° 14′ 3.26″ E

UTM: 32U 514804 6148300

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 9 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm* / 80 cm**

Basin Depth: 24 cm**

Basin Total Height: 52 cm**

Height of Base: 28 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm* / 80 cm**

Square Base Dimensions: 49 x 49 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Danmarks kirker / ** BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Danmarks Kirker, Nationalmuseet i København. Accessed: 2024-12-04 00:00:00. URL: http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk.

Lidén, Anne, "Nordisk stenskulptur med Olavsmotiv: Kritik och tolkning kring dopfunten i Löderup", 1995-1996, 1998, pp. 66-81; p. 66-81

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941

Møller, Elna, Danmarks kirker: Ribe Amt, København: Nationalmuseet - Poul Kristensens Forlag, 1979-

Nancke-Krogh, Søren, Stenbilleder i danska kirker, 1995