Villaines-sous-Luce / Villaines-sous-Lucé
Results: 4 records
BD101: human figure - male - artisan - mason or builder
Scene Description: a bust portrait of one of the two donors, a master mason
BD102: human figure - male - artisan - blacksmith
Scene Description: a bust portrait of the second of the two donors, a blacksmith
BD103: symbol - shield - tools
Scene Description: the tools of a mason and a blacksmith appear on this shield
BD104: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the front side of the main block
INFORMATION
FontID: 06101VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton du Grand-Lucé, arrondissement du Mans
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 1: 661) as a polygonal mounted double-font, all carved out of a single block; the main basin is hexagonal, and the auxiliary one is square, both projecting their surface straight to the ground so that the surface at the top is exactly the same as the one at the bottom; the sides are ornamented with foliage and other motifs, as well as the head-portraits of the the two donors, a mason and a blacksmith, and their tools in a shield.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted) (double-Font)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal (basin1) - square (basin2)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: a single flat wooden lid shaped to cover both wells
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001