Museo Maricel No. 2 / Museu Maricel

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07212MAR
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Museum: Museu Maricel (Sitges, Barcelona prov.), Sala III, w/o inventory number
Church / Chapel Name: [origin unknown]
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] Carrer de Fonollar, s/n, 08870 Sitges, Barcelona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 938 94 03 64
Site Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Sitges is located off the C-246a. The Museum is located in Sitges, in Carrer del Fonollar, 2-6
Font Notes:
Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 276) as a holy-water stoup probably from the Romanesque period; it is from the collection of J. Pérez Rosales, now in the Museu Maricel i del Cau Ferrat, Sitges, Barcelona province; its origin is unknown; it appears monolithic, a combination of a capital-like basin ornamented with leaves and a quadrangular base of a central sgaft with four constructional colonnettes [cf. Index entry for Museo Maricel No. 1 for a baptismal font of the same period in this museum]. Holy-water stoup of the Romanesque period reported in Catalunya romànica 20 (2002: 147) among the collections of the Museu Maricel, in Sitges, in the Barcelona province; origin not given. [cf. Index entry for Museo Maricel No. 1 for a baptismal font of the same period in this museum]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 400484 4565525
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.235, 1.8125
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 14′ 6″ N, 1° 48′ 45″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (includes rim): 31 cm*
Basin Depth: 15.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 54.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 276) *[measurement given simply as "diàmetre", although the outer shape of the object is quadrangular]

REFERENCES

  • Catalunya romànica 19: El Baix Ebre - La Terra Alta - El Matarranya - Museus amb art romànic, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 2002, p. 147
  • Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XIX: 276