Tlaxcala No. 1
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LB01: human figure - head - Pre-Columbian - Aztec?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Lara, 2008
Image Source: grayscale version of a detail of an illustration in Lara (2008)
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Lara, 2008
Image Source: grayscale version of a detail of an illustration in Lara (2008)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Lara, 2008
Image Source: illustration in Lara (2008)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06891TLA
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: A similar one on the opposite side
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Catedral de San José [a parish church until 1640]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Joseph
Church Notes: The church, built ca. 1526, was made cathedral in 1640
Site Location: Tlaxcala, Mexico, North America
Directions to Site: In the old centre, opposite the Mesón Real
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: the base is a pre-Columbian statue / composite stoup
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Reyes-Valerio (2000) as one of two holy-water stoups in this church; the stoup consists of a plain hemispherical basin mounted on a pre-Columbian statue ["ídolo]". Illustrated in Lara (2008). The image is identified as "Camaxti" in the web page of the Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud [source: www.imjuventud.gob.mex/Setrvicios/Redtur]]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Lara, Jaime, Christian texts for Aztecs: art and liturgy in Colonial Mexico, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, fig. 4.15
- Reyes-Valerio, Constantino, Arte indocristiano, México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2000, p. 325 and ill. 112