Jonkoping / Jönköping

INFORMATION

FontID: 06287JON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Jönköping Museum
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown - now in a museum]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Jönköpings län
Historical Region: Jönköpings län, Småland
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: attributed to the Bestiarius workshop [Drake]
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940720F1] [https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=940720F1] [accessed 27 July 2023] as a fragment of a sandstone baptismal font dated to the second half of the 12th century, now in the Jönköping Museum [Inv. nr. 9764]; the fragment belonged to the basin, which was decorated with an arcade of twelve round arches, four of which house figures. The SHM notes that the JLM suggests a possible provenance from Hakarp. Noted in Drake (2002) as a fragment attributed to the Bestiarius workshop but not verified. [cf. BSI entry for Hakarp (Småland)]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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