Castelltallat No. 1

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - 4

Scene Description: all around the basin side

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LB01: design element - motifs - tassel

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08191CAS
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Miquel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located S of the N1418, W of the C-1412, near Sant Mateu de Bages
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery chapel
Century and Period: 15th - 17th century, Late Medieval
Baptismal font of a much later date than the one reported for this church [NB: this must be another font (since there is only one Castelltallat location in Catalonia) or the one at the Museu de Manresa - cf. Index entry for Castelltallat- was not originally from this site]. The octagonal mounted font appears monolithic and somewhat resembles a soufflé overflowing its container; the basin consists of a series of three scotias in between four mouldings, all the same size and all in keeping with the octagonal shape of the basin; the base is a truncated octagonal pyramid, upside-down, and has a beautifully-rendered tassle on one of its sides, the saving grace of this font; the lower base is square and made of two round mouldings. The font has a wooden octagonal pyramidal cover with a ball-and-point finial. [We are grateful to Montserrat Stela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the images of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [[cf. Font notes]