Mjallby / Mjällby

Results: 5 records

B01: design element - architectural - buttress - human shape - 7

Scene Description: one, a seated (?) figure, at each angle of the main volume

B02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 7

Scene Description: very ornamented

BBU01: design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: all around the upper side, just below the rim

BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a romboid motif - 7

Scene Description: one on each panel bellow the crenellation

LB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 7

Scene Description: short ones; one at each angle of the lower volume

INFORMATION

FontID: 05761MJA
Church/Chapel: Mjällby kyrka
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Blekinge, Blekinge län
Historical Region: Blekinge län, Listers haräd
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1620?
Century and Period: 17th century(early),
Church Notes: The same source (SK...) informs that the old church was demolished in 1788 and a new one finished in 1796; the furnishings, including the font, were transferred to the new church.
Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 170 and fig. 140 on p. 175; Bd. V: 84 and fig. 65 on p. 78) as a wooden heptagonal baptismal font of the 1620s, carved painted and gilded; it is shaped like a seven-sided cabinet; the upper rim has a thin protruding rim; below it, a crenellated pattern; the oblong vertical panels just below that are ornamented with a romboid plate at the centre of wich is a rosette; the main volume comes next with protruding buttresses in the shape of seated (?) figures, one at each angle; the sides proper are ornamented with an elaborately decorated blind arcade of round arches, all of which ends in several levels of mouldings; the third volume down is also buttressed, with high-relief geometric shapes on the panels.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, oak?
Font Shape: heptagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm
Notes on Measurements: Sveriges kyrkor: Blekinge (1926-1965, Bd. II: 170)

REFERENCES

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