Museo Maricel No. 2 / Museu Maricel
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07212MAR
Object Type: Stoup
Museum and Inventory Number: Museu Maricel (Sitges, Barcelona prov.)
Church/Chapel: [origin unknown]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in Sitges, in Carrer del Fonollar, 2-6 [Sala III, w/o number]
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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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 Muse0 Maricel No. 1 for a baptismal font of the same period in this museum]
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
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-