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Results: 6 records
BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed
LB01: design element - patterns - ribbed
LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
LID01: symbol - orb and cross
R01: design element - motifs - knob
INFORMATION
FontID: 08659GOR
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: France
Location: Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the Canton of the same name, arrondissement de Mayenne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century,
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 1: 392): baptismal font probably of the 17th century made odf a reddish marble identified as "Louverné" in this source; it is roughly chalice-shaped, consisting of a rather shallow octagonal basin raised on a quadrangular pedestal base of the baluster type with chamfered corners that make it octagonal. The basin has knob motif all around the upper rim, and ribbed pattern on the underbowl. The base is baluster type and decorated with mouldings. Low-dome octagonal copper cover with orb-and-cross finial. [Flohic ref. no. 53120508]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble (reddish) (Louverné)
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
metal,
copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal low-dome
REFERENCES
Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2 vols.), Paris: FLOHIC, 2002