Hallaryd / Hällaryd

Results: 6 records

B01: coat of arms

Scene Description: together with the initials "MI SK", on one of the panels of the basin

B02: 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

FontID: 05751HAL
Church/Chapel: Hällaryds kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Bräkne haräd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1649
Century and Period: 17th century(mid),
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 Notes: The coat of arms may belong to the Kock family, a churchwarden
Inscription Location: on two of the panels of the basin
Inscription Text: 1.- "MI SK" 2.- "K HD 1649"
Inscription Source: Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 36)

REFERENCES

Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965