Elleholm
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05754ELL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Cognate Fonts: Others of this type and period in surrounding areas of Sweden
Church / Chapel Name: Elleholms kyrka
Font Location in Church: In the new church
Site Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län, Sweden, Europe
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Listers haräd
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 120ff) as a 17th-century wooden baptismal font; the base is a human figure standing on a rock with lion's feet (?), with an octagonal basin on his head; according to this same source, the figure represents John the Baptist. There is a matching (?) baldaquin above it. Other fonts of this type and period are found in this southern area of Sweden.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: a baldaquin, rather than a lid
REFERENCES
- Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge, Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelscentralen, 1926-1965, Bd. II: 120 and fig. 106 on p. 123