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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
Font ID: 05785BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
Museum: Musée de la porte de Hal (Brussels)
Font Location in Church: [not in a church]
Site Location: Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest ou Brussel, Belgium, Europe
Font Notes:
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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, vol. 2, p. 145