Casefabre / Casafabre

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LB01: design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: one at angle of the pedestal base

INFORMATION

FontID: 08202CAS
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin / Església de Sant Martí
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located in the Roussillon, south of the N-116, near Saint-Michel-de-Llotes, off the D-2
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: A similar font at nearby Fourques/ Forques, and not very different from the one originally from Sant Genís de Gavarrós, now in Sant Andreu de Sagàs
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIV: 181): baptismal font probably of the 12th or 13th century made of white marble; it consists of a bucket-shaped basin, totally plain, and a short pedestal base round at the top and square at the bottom, ornamented with a large leaf at each angle. The plain flat wooden lid is modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (white)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-