Kobenhavn No. 3 / København / Copenhagen

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left - Gabriel holds cross sceptre - Holy Spirit

Scene Description: On the baptismal dish

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

coat of arms - Christian IV, king of Denmark - 4

Scene Description: the emblem consists of a crowned "C4"; repeated four times around the basin sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2

Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the slender stem of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding - 4

Scene Description: one around each of the "knees" of the lower base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: framing the king's emblems on the basin side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

design element - motifs - scroll - 4

Scene Description: in the space created by the bent legs of the lower base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

human figure - bust - 4

Scene Description: some male, some female; have Oriental features

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

human figure - leg - 4

Scene Description: bent at the knee, they support the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2011 by Heather Cowper [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Holmen_-_Copenhagen.jpg] [accessed 16 February 2018]

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view of font and baptismal dish

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 August 2003 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 08713KOB

Church/Chapel: Holmens Kirke

Church Location: Holmens Kanal 21, 1060 København K, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 33 13 61 78

Country Name: Denmark

Location: København, Sjælland

Directions to Site: Located on Havnegade, by the Holmens Kanal, just over the bridge, towards the centre of Copenhagen

Font Location in Church: Insede the church, centre aisle, at the transept

Date: 1646

Century and Period: 17th century(mid),

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hans Ulriksen Svitzer

Church Notes: present church chiefly of the 1872 renovation

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font in wrought iron designed as a support for the baptismal dish ["dåbsfad"] made of silver; the latter was re-cast at a later date and bears an Annunciation scene. The basin sides are decorated with four human busts of Oriental inspiration alternating with the crowned "4" -Christian IV, king of Denmark- framed in foliage; the stem of the base is very slender and has a rope moulding at eachh end; the lower base consists of four thin human-like legs at 90-degree angles; the space created below the knee is filled with a scroll-like motif, all of the above-mentioned elements in wrought iron [except the silver dish]. According to the church information pamplet, "The font in wrought iron was donated in 1646 by forgemaster Hans Ulriksen Svitzer himself. The original baptismal dish in silver from 1646 was recast in 1757 to fit a new font executed in white marble by C. F. Stanley. It [i.e., the marble font] now stands in the baptismal chapel in the Garden Aisle".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.6766, 12.5836

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 40′ 35.76″ N, 12° 35′ 0.96″ E

UTM: 33U 348055 6172734

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, iron (wrought iron)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Font Height (less Plinth): 117 cm

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Danish

Inscription Notes: King Christian IV's emblem, repeated four times around the basin

Inscription Location: basin sides

Inscription Text: "C4"

Inscription Source: on-site