Emmelsbull / Emmelsbuhl / Emmelsbüll / Emmelsbühl
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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: broad ribs all around the basin and underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: Berggren (2002: pl. 10 on p. 157)
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BBU01: design element - motifs - scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: Berggren (2002: pl. 10 on p. 157)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: Berggren (2002: pl. 10 on p. 157)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 08838EMM
Church/Chapel: [Parish Church?]
Country Name: Germany
Location: Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: Located in Nordfriesland, the north-eastern side of Schleswig-Holstein, about 6 km NW of Niebüll
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl)
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Drake (2002: 144, 183) as a baptismal font of the Paradise group (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl), made of Gotland limestone. Described and illustrated in Berggren (2002: 156-157 and pl. 10). The font consists of a quatrefoil basin decorated with a broad-ribbed pattern on the sides and underbowl; the upper basin side has a thin scotia just below the rim; the base is in a general conical shape, made of two pieces, but also showing the four lobes; it has a four-lobed centre ring at the upper end of the stem, while the lower part of the base splays outwards still maintaining the four-lober shape.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Gotlandic limestone)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped -- quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
REFERENCES
Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002