Voxtorp No. 1 / Vaxtorp / Växtorp

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Christ - Agnus Dei - passant - with cross and banner - foliated tongue

seen here in the left arch, passant to the right
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch, passant to the right
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animal - bird - foliated tongue - passant

seen here in the left arch, passant to the right-- is it a floriated tongue or prey [a human leg?] hanging from its mouth?
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch, passant to the right-- is it a floriated tongue or prey [a human leg?] hanging from its mouth?
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animal - bird - with processional cross - passant

seen here in the right arch, passant to the right
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch, passant to the right
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant

seen here in the left arch, passant to the right
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch, passant to the right
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animal - mammal - quadruped - foliated tonge - passant

seen here in the right arch, passant to the right -- is it a floriated tongue or prey hanging from its mouth?
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch, passant to the right -- is it a floriated tongue or prey hanging from its mouth?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940718F1] [accessed 7 October 2021]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - foliated tongue - foliated tail - passant

seen here in the left arch, passant to the right [NB: like the rest of the quadrupeds on this basin, this one is too anatomically undefinied for identification]
Scene Description: seen here in the left arch, passant to the right [NB: like the rest of the quadrupeds on this basin, this one is too anatomically undefinied for identification]
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animal - mammal - quadruped - horned? - foliated tail - passant

seen here in the right arch, passant to the right -- the floriated tail inwards between its legs; not clear what the elongated shape is meant to be, protruding from the back of its head
Scene Description: seen here in the right arch, passant to the right -- the floriated tail inwards between its legs; not clear what the elongated shape is meant to be, protruding from the back of its head
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 9 - beaded-tape - columns - cloumns with capitals - patterned columns

some of the stylised capitals have crosses inscribed in them; the coluimns themselves, where they can be seen at all, are very short, stump-like
Scene Description: some of the stylised capitals have crosses inscribed in them; the coluimns themselves, where they can be seen at all, are very short, stump-like
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design element - motifs - braid

all around, below the upper rim
Scene Description: all around, below the upper rim
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

a broad one below with a thinner one atop
Scene Description: a broad one below with a thinner one atop
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

all around, right above the between the row of heads
Scene Description: all around, right above the between the row of heads
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human figure - face, head or mask - 14 - detail

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human figure - face, head or mask - 14 - detail

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symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life

seen here in the centre arch
Scene Description: seen here in the centre arch
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symbol - triquetra - beaded tape - 9

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view of basin

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, detalj, 1200-talets början."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, detalj, 1200-talets början."
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Image Source: digital image [9141-047.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Gotthard Johansson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voxtorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090504.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2021]
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view of basin

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, detalj, 1200-talets början."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, detalj, 1200-talets början."
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Image Source: digital image [9141-049.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Gotthard Johansson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voxtorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090507.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2021]
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view of basin

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, detalj, 1200-talets början."
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view of basin - detail

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, detalj, 1200-talets början."
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Image Source: digital image [9141-048.TIF] of a 1919 B&W photograph by Gotthard Johansson, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voxtorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090505.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2021]
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view of font

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-talets början."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-talets början."
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Image Source: digital image [9141-019.TIF] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Oscar Hertzberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voxtorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090454.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2021]
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view of font

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-talets början."
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view of font

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-talets början."
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Image Source: digital image [9141-021.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Paul Boberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voxtorps_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200090465.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2021]
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view of font

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-talets början."
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view of font

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-talets början."
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view of font

Source caption: "Voxtorps kyrka [...] Dopfunt av sandsten, 1200-talets början."
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view of font

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view of iconographic program

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Image Source: digital image of drawing in Blomqvist (1929)
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INFORMATION

FontID: 06249VAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Jönköpings läns museum
Church/Chapel: Voxtorps kyrka [origin unknown]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for Voxtorps kyrka] Voxtorps kyrkby, Centrumvägen 9, 330 15 Bor, Sweden
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Voxtorp kyrka is located off (S) county road 27 [aka Värnamovägen], 3 km NW of Bor, in the municipality and 7-8 km SE of Värnamo
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Östbo härad, Jönköpings län
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Lekerydsmästaren, Bestiarius [Blomqvist, Borg] / Bestiarius, Group 7-Transitional [Drake] / Bestiariusgruppen [SHM]
Cognate Fonts: Lekeryd, Vireda, etc.
Font Notes:
Noted in Blomqvist (1929) as a baptismal font of unknown origin but found in Voxtorp; it was later moved to the Jönköpings län museum; Blomqvist (ibid.) attributes it to a 'Lekerydsmästaren', follower of Bestiarius. Inventoried and illsutarted in Borg (2002) as a baptismal font made of sandstone in 1170-2220, and located in Jlm [sic]' Borg's entry (ibid.) gives accepts Blomqvist's attribution to the 'Lekerydsgruppen'. Described in Drake (2002: 141, 142, 183) as a baptismal of the Bestiarius workshop (Group 7 - Transitional); like the fonts at Lekeryd and Vireda - adds Drake (ibid., p. 141), "these [oval shapes] have grown and become a ring of human heads peering out from under the overhang of the bowl"; other ornamentation include "single motifs based based on the five-leaf version of the fleur-de-lis" (ibid., p. 142). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940718F1] as a Bestiariusgruppen baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century; of unknown origin, this font is reported in the SHM entry as being at the Jönköpings läns museum (Inv. Nr.: 16476). The SHM entry makes reference to Blomqvist [cf. supra] and his attribution and origin. The entry for this church by Jonas Haas, 'Voxtorps kyrka: Kulturhistorisk karakterisering och bedömning', JÖNKÖPINGS LÄNS MUSEUM, Byggnadsvårdsrapport 2007:79 [https://www.bebyggelseregistret.raa.se/bbr2/show/bilaga/showDokument.raa;jsessionid=BCB076721E0F4C0C4962540301FD77A9.lx-ra-bbr?dokumentId=21000001825974&thumbnail=false] [accessed 7 October 2021] mentions a medieval font that was in storage, together with other objects from this church, in the Jönköpings län museum in 1930 [="Igenmurning av norra mittfönstret och istället plats iordninggjord för äldre altarskåp och dopfunt som dittills förvarats på länsmuseet i Jönköping. (SvK)" [NB: the source appears to be SvenskaKyrka]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.127958, 14.128283
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 7′ 40.65″ N, 14° 7′ 41.82″ E
UTM: 33V 447228 6331967

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 79.5 cm* / 79 cm**
Basin Depth: 29.5 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 43 cm*
Basin Total Height: 66 cm*
Height of Base: 23 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm* / 100 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) / **

REFERENCES

Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002