Brussels No. 4 / Bruxelles

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B01: human figure - head

Scene Description: several among the foliage that adorns the basin sides
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Image Source: Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 145)
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B02: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the basin sides
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Image Source: Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 145)
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a thin one at the narrowest point of the pedestal
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Image Source: Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 145)
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Image Source: Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 145)
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INFORMATION

FontID: 05785BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée de la porte de Hal (Brussels)
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest ou Brussel
Font Location in Church: [not in a church]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
Font Notes:
Illustrated in Corblet (1881-1882: v. 2, p. 145) as an octagonal (?) Ogee font; the basin has a band of ornamentation that includes heads and foliage between mouldings [if the drawing is accurate there may be a leaf-head figure or "mascaron" among them. The pedestal of the base narrows at the centre with a thin ring moulding at its thinnest, and splays again to meet the octagonal shape of the vertical sides of the lower base. The upper rim has the two staples of the font cover lock. Corblet (ibid.) placed it at the Musée de la porte de Hal, Brussels, ca. 1881.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882