Kazimierz / Kazimierz Dolny / Kazimierzh / Kuzmir / Kozmir
Image copyright © Solange Silverberg, 2003
Image and Permission received (Summer 2003)
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Solange Silverberg, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Solange Silverberg
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: a row of, with inscription in between
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Solange Silverberg
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inscription
Scene Description: the letters and numbers of the inscription alternate with the rosettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Solange Silverberg, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Solange Silverberg
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (Summer 2003)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Solange Silverberg, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Solange Silverberg
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: all around the underbowl
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Solange Silverberg
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human figure - child - head - putto? - cherub? - 4
Scene Description: no wings present
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Solange Silverberg, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Solange Silverberg
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Solange Silverberg, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Solange Silverberg
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (Summer 2003)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08561KAZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 158[?]
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late)
Church / Chapel Name: Farna Parish Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: present church documented 13thC but there may have been an earlier church on the site
Church Address: 24-120 Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
Site Location: Puławy, Województwo lubelskie, Poland, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 824, on the E bank of the Vistula river, about 10 km S of Pulawy, 50 km WNW of Lublin
Historical Region: Małopolska
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of marble dated to 158[?] by an inscription; hemispherical basin made of white marble and ornamented with a protruding lip at the upper rim; the side has a band of gilded rosettes between which run the letters and numbers of the inscription; a thin moulding, also gilded, signals the upper end of the underbowl, itself decorated with ribbed pattern; the upper end of the stem of the base is square in shape and made of pink marble, each side decorated with a cherub or putto head; the stem proper is also square and made of white marble, like the basin, but of a bulbous shape and its sides are ornamented with foliage; the lower base is square again and decorated with two mouldings. The whole stands on a circular plinth. The wooden cover is shaped like the basin, but upturned, with the protruding lip at the bottom, then the row of rosettes and, obove them, the ribbed pattern; it ends in a round know finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Solange Silverberg, of Toronto, Canada, for the image of this font -- July 2003
COORDINATES
UTM: 34U 566023 5686084
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.322222, 21.9475
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 20″ N, 21° 56′ 51″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (white and pink)
Number of Pieces: four?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers and letters
Inscription Location: around the basin side
Inscription Text: "[?]D158[?]"
Inscription Notes: only partially visible in the source, but the date indicates the 1580s
Inscription Source: Photograph courtesy of Solange Silverberg
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. font notes]