Santes Creus No. 1 / Aiguamurcia / Aiguamúrcia

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design element - motifs - handle and hand

Scene Description: the upper part of the motif may be missing, since the upper rim of the basin is very worn; a fist around a handle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 September 2015 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus or grapevine - bearing fruit
information
view of basin - interior
view of basin - left side
view of basin - right side
INFORMATION
FontID: 07209CRE
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Diocesano de Tarragona / Museu Diocesà de Tarragona (Tarragona)
Church/Chapel: [originally from the Església Parroquial de Santa Llúcia or the Monastery, in Santes Creus]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lucy [aka Lucia?]
Church Location: Pl. de l´Església, 2, Santes Creus, Tarragona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Tarragona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Santes Creus is in the Alt Camp area of the province
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Tarragona
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, and to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.com, for their photographs of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984, vol. XXI: 91, 203): basin from a baptismal font of the early 13th century, originally from the parish church of Santes Creus, Tarragona province, now [since before 1915] in the Museo Diocesano / Museu Diocesà de Tarragona [the label in the museum states that the font is from the monastery, not the parish church at Santes Creus]; the sides of the hemispherical basin are ornamented with -at least- one prominent knob and semicircle [ball-in-socket? fist with handle?] motif on the upper side; next to it there is an indentation or hole a few inches wide [NB: similar indentations are found in fonts on both side of the Catalan Pyrenees; they usually serve to place the metal lock of the cover, although this particular one appears farther down, about the middle of the side, as if it could have been used to lift the font?]; a band of low-relief with a vine motif between two roll mouldings ornaments the underbowl. Traces of red and blue paint are reported in the grooves of the carving. The font was acquired by the museum before 1915 and is now [2004] in this same museum, in Tarragona capital. [NB: a holy-water stoup from Rocallaura, in La Segarra, is displayed next to the font in this museum -- cf. Index entry for Rocallaura]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 363030 4578596
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble (white)
Number of Pieces: one [basin only]
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm
Basin Total Height: 35 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984, vol. XXI: 203)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: the damage to the upper rim and the indentation on the basin side may be related to the existence of a lid on this basin
REFERENCES
Catalunya romànica 19: El Baix Ebre - La Terra Alta - El Matarranya - Museus amb art romànic, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 2002
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-