Cuernavaca No. 2

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Results: 6 records

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B01: coat of arms - unidentified - 4

Scene Description: the one visible in the source appears to contain foliage of some sort

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LB01: symbol - rope - knotted - Franciscan cingulum? - 2

Scene Description: parallel, dividing the object into three roughly equal parts

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LB02: inscription

Scene Description: sandwiched between the two parallel rope mouldings

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LB03: design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: all around the lower part of the base

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

R01: design element - motifs - rope

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of stoup

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 08556CUE

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Regional de Historia Cuauhnahuac (Palacio Cortes)

Church/Chapel: [in a museum -- origin unknown]

Country Name: Mexico

Location: Morelos

Directions to Site: The museum is located on Leyva no. 100, in the historical quarter of Cuernavaca, opposite the Zócalo

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 16th century(mid?), Tequitqui

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to professor Mónica Domínguez, of the Dept. of Art History, University of Delaware, for her images of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the caption of its illustration in Espacio y tiempo... (2001) as a Franciscan baptismal font of the 16th century [="Pila bautismal franciscana del siglo XVI"], although the object is probably a holy-water stoup to judge by its shape and size: it appears monolithic and roughly cylindrical in general shape, divided into three parts by two protruding mouldings imitating the Franciscan rope cingulum; the upper part, the basin, is ornamented with four large shields at 90-degree angles, each with a motif in it [unidentified, though probably related to the order]; the upper rim has been carved as a rope motif but is not as prominent as the two mouldings below; these are parallel; the space between them showing an inscription incised in large letters [SDEB?]; the lower third of the object, the base, splays out slightly and is decorated with foliage (?) all around. This stoup (?) is very much in the "tequitqui" style and of an appearance seen in other Mexican fonts of this period [cf. Index entries for Acatzingo, etc.], though not identical.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials?

Inscription Notes: only partially visible in the source

Inscription Location: around the middle section of the stoup/font

Inscription Text: [SDEB?]

Inscription Source: Espacio y tiempo... (2001: 31)

REFERENCES

Espacio y tiempo del Museo Regional Cuauhnahuac, Palacio de Cortés, México DF: CONACULTA-INAH, 2001