Tavertet No. 2

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B01: design element - motifs - triangle

Scene Description: repeated in a hexagonal frame

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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B02: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: the Catalonian bars (5?) atop a hexagonal motif with a six-petal flower in a hexagon

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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B03: Christ - monogram - IHS - in a circle

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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view of stoup

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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view of stoup

Image Source: Digital photograph from Juan Antonio Olañeta, www.claustro.com

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: Digital photograph from Juan Antonio Olañeta, www.claustro.com

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 September 2005)

INFORMATION

FontID: 06535TAV

Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Cristòfol

Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher

Country Name: Spain

Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located off the C153 (follow the C153 NW from VIc/Vich for about 15 km to Santa Maria de Corco; there take a local road east; it leads directly to Tavertet, just east of the Pant de Sau)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic stoup

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. III: 627). Described in the Guia comarcal Catalunya romanica 2 (1999: 154) as a holy-water stoup of the Romanesque period with incised ornamentation. It is unlikely that this stoup is anything other than Gothic; the obejct consists of an octagonal basin decorated on three sides with [L->R]: 1)hexagonal motif of triangulated pattern within, 2)shield motif with the Catalonian bars on the upper half and a six-petal flower within a hexagon in the lower half, and 3)the IHS monogram in Gothic lettering inside a circle; the remaining sides are blank; it is mounted on a cylindrical stem with screw-like roll mouldings all the way down to the octagonal lower base, curved at the top, resembling an inverted basin. [cf. Index entry for Tavertet No. 1 for a baptismal font probably of the same period in this church]. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, and to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for the photographs of this object]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Location: side of the basin

Inscription Text: "IHS"

Inscription Source: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. III: 627)

REFERENCES

Catalunya romànica 2: Osona, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1999

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-