Tanno / Tånnö

INFORMATION

FontID: 06283TAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm
Church/Chapel: [orig. from Tånnö kyrka - now in a museum]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Directions to Site: Tånnö is located on the E4, about 7 km S of Värnamo [the font is now in a museum]
Historical Region: Jönköpings län, Småland
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bestiarius font (variant)
Font Notes:
Listed as a baptismal font of the Bestiarius workshop (variant group) in Drake (2002: 183) [Drake reports the font at the Statens Historiska Museum in Stockholm]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002