Hallaryd / Hällaryd
Results: 6 records
B01: symbol - shield - coat of arms
Scene Description: together with the initials "MI SK", on one of the panels of the basin
B02: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Kock family?
Scene Description: Kock was a churchwarden according to SK...
B03: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent
Scene Description: the Tree in the centre with the serpent; Adam and Eve to either side of it
B04: angel
Scene Description: the bust of an angel
B05: symbol - fruit
Scene Description: on the next two panels of the basin
LBF01: human figure - female - grotesque or fantastic - siren - 3
Scene Description: three of them, on the outer sides, support the basin together with the central shaft
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05751HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1649
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid)
Church / Chapel Name: Hällaryds kyrka
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Site Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län, Sweden, Europe
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Bräkne haräd
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 36ff; Bd. V: 86 and fig. 66 on p. 79) as a wooden hexagonal baptismal font of the mid-17th century, carved, painted and gilded; the sides of the basin are ornamented with 1)a shield bearing the skull and cross-bones; outside the shield are the initials "MI SK"; 2)shield with coat of arms; initials K HD (Kock, a churchwarden?) and date 1649 outside the shield; 3)scene of the Fall, with Adam and Eve to the sides of the Tree and the serpent; 4)upper body of an angel; 5-6)fruit motif ornamentation. The lower base is a hexagonal box which serves as the base for the central pedestal of hexagonal baluster type, and the three mermaids who support the basin like atlantes. The central shaft, its base and the upper areas of the basin are ornamented with foliage motifs.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Swedish and numbers
Inscription Location: on two of the panels of the basin
Inscription Text: 1.- "MI SK"
2.- "K HD 1649"
Inscription Notes: The coat of arms may belong to the Kock family, a churchwarden
Inscription Source: Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 36)
REFERENCES
- Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965, Bd. II: 36 and figs. 31, 32 on p. 40, 41f; Bd. V: 86 and fig. 66 on p. 79