Bocairent / Bekiren / بُكَيران / Bukayrān / Bocairente

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B01: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: at the centre of the basin side

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B02: human figure - male - arms raised

Scene Description: on the left; appears to be a noble; extends his arm to the shield in the centre

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B03: coat of arms - Royal Arms of Aragon

Scene Description: held by the two figures on the sides; arms of Aragon (Catalonia and Valencia)

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B04: human figure - male - arms raised

Scene Description: his left arm holds the shield in the centre

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B05: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: at the centre of one of the basin sides

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

Scene Description: at the angle, to the left of the arms of Aragon-Catalonia-Valencia

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B07: coat of arms - Royal Arms of Aragon

Scene Description: the arms of the Kingdom of Aragon (Catalonia and Valencia)

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

Scene Description: to the right of the Royal Arms of Aragon

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B08: human figure - arms raised

Scene Description: the right arm holds a side of the shield

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B09: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: as a depiction of Poseidon or similar; the mouth was probably used as the drainage

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B10: animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - female

Scene Description: on the left; her left arm holds a side of the shield

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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B11: coat of arms - town of Bocairent?

Scene Description: the shield is held by a siren on the left and a human figure with arms raised on the right

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 June 2016 by chisloup [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L'eglise_de_bocairent_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2020]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2009 by Luis Rogelio HM [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bocairent_-_004_(33083799012).jpg] [accessed 8 August 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: Vicente Casanova (Bocairent, Spain)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07543BOC

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción / Església parroquial de la Mare de Déu de l'Assumpció

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Carrer de l'Abadía, 31, 46880 Bocairent, Valencia, Spain -- Tel.: +34 962 35 00 62

Country Name: Spain

Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana / Comunitat Valenciana

Directions to Site: Located on the CV-81, 5-6 km S of Ontinyent, 20-25 km NW of Alcoy

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Valencia

Historical Region: Valle de Albaida

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1496-1505?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: attributed to Pere Barberà, Vicent d'Oliva and Pere Capdevila or their workshop / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: The public fountain [not a baptismal font] still in use in Játiva (Xàtiva)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pilar Esteve Vicedo of Touristinfo Bocairent, Spain, for the documentation, and to Vicente Casanova for the photographs of this font

Church Notes: church said to have been built on the site of the Moor castle of Bekiren; consecrated 1516; much modified since; the font, a former public fountain, said to have been installed in the church in the 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in the web site of Bocairent [www.bocairent.org] as a polygonal mounted baptismal font, formerly a public fountain, of the 15th century. An article by Josep A. Ferre i Puerto "L'aigua i els homes: una portada d'aigües a Bocairent, finals del s. XV" [orig. source not recorded] informs that it is not known whether the object was made in this town or elsewhere, although similar work appears on the town's shield the work of Pere Barberà; the same type of work was done also in La Llotja (La Lonja) by Vicent d'Oliva and Pere Capdevila and their workshop. Ferre i Puerto suggests that this fountain/font may have been the work of several people, each responsible for different parts. The base is a polygonal -either square or octagonal- Gothic pedesta. The sides of the basin -it appears to be pentagonal or hexagonal- have human figures or fabulous animals at the angles, whereas the centre of the sides is occupied alternatively by a coat of arms or a mascaron, a grotesque head (the mouth of one of these heads, somewhat resembling a characteristic portrayal of a Sea-god [Poseidon?], was the drainage hole, now plugged up). The lid is also polygonal [pentagonal?], a low-dome wooden cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 38.767611, -0.609532

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 38° 46′ 3.4″ N, 0° 36′ 34.31″ W

UTM: 30S 707683 4293702

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

Drainage Notes: the drainage system was of the original fountain [not known whether another drainage system was made for its use as font]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: the pyramidal lid is probably 19th century