Lubiana / Alt Libbehne / Łubiana

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Image and permission received from Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie (e-mail of 20 February 2024)

Results: 10 records

animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: several, one in each arch of the arcade; so fancy in their ornamentation they look like fabulous animals

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 5 October 2020 in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

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design element - architectural - arcade

Scene Description: each arch containing a fancy lion

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Image Source: digital photograph 5 October 2020 in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a leaf in each spandrel of the arcade

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Image Source: digital photograph 5 October 2020 in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

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design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: over the arches of the arcade

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Image Source: digital photograph 5 October 2020 in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie (e-mail of 20 February 2024)

view of basin

Scene Description: shown here on display at the museum

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Grzegorz Solecki / Archiwum Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 4 January 2020 by Grzegorz Solecki, in the Archiwum Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie [http://pomeranica.pl/wiki/Plik:Chrzcielnica_z_Lubiany,_ok._1300.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2024]

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view of basin

Scene Description: shown here on display at the museum -- notice the not-quite-round shape of the basin interior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 5 October 2020 in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie (e-mail of 20 February 2024)

view of basin

Scene Description: shown here on display at the museum

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 5 October 2020 in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie (e-mail of 20 February 2024)

view of basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Berggren (2002: 159 pl. 15)

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: showing in the left corner the Lubiana font during the Misterium Światła. Sztuka średniowieczna na Pomorzu / Mysterium des Lichts. Mittelalterliche Kunst in Pommern exhibition

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph in Krasnodębska (2022) [https://cyfrowa.muzeum.szczecin.pl/item/viewer?id=9] [accessed 22 February 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing a partial view of the base on which the old basin stood

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archiwum Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie, 2018

Image Source: digital image of a pre-1945 B&W photograph in the Archiwum Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie [http://pomeranica.pl/wiki/Plik:Chrzcielnica_Lubiana_archiv.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09145LUB
Museum and Inventory Number: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Wały Chrobrego 3,
Church/Chapel: [Łubiana parish church -- demolished 1955]
Church Location: [NB: location and coordinates given for Łubiana]
Country Name: Poland
Location: Gmina Pełczyce, Zachodniopomorskie / West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Directions to Site: Łubiana is located S of road 20 and Nowa Karczma, 8-9 km W of Kościerzyna, about 60 km WSW of Gdansk
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Fröjelgruppen?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, for the information, sources and the additional photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: medieval church destroyed in the Thirty Years' War; demolished 1955-1957
Basin of a baptismal font of the "Fröjelgruppen" [=Fröjel group"] of works exported from Gotland; originally from the parish church in Łubiana, later in the Muzeum Narodowe, in Szczecinie. Noted in Mehnert (1934) as a font of the "Fröjel" type with a polygonal bowl decorated with a dragon motif. Noted in Krzymuska-Fafius (1962). Noted in Kuczyńska (1984). Described and illustrated in Berggren (2002: 159 pl. 15): decagonal basin with a rounded underbowl decorated with a row of saw-tooth motif at the upper basin side; a number of wide rounded arches cover the sides and underbowl, with fancyly-ornamented lions in them; the spandrels of the arches are decorated with leaves; original base missing. Berggren (ibid.) informs that there are thirty-two "enigmatic fonts of the Fröjel type, named after the famous font in a small village church in southern Gotland." The origin is given by Berggren as "Lubiana, Poland [...] now in the National Museum, Szczecin". [cf. Index entry for Fröjel for the font after which the group is named]. Noted in Wardzyński (2010). Noted and illustrated in Pomeranica [http://pomeranica.pl/wiki/Chrzcielnica_z_Lubiany] accessed 22 February 2024]. Catalogued and illustrated in Kinga Krasnodębska (2022): "Schale eines Taufbeckens gotländische Werkstatt, um 1350–1375. Gotland-Kalkstein, polychromiert. Höhe 29 cm, Breite 62 cm, Tiefe 61 cm. Herkunft: aus der Kirche in Alt Libbehne bei Arnswalde; nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in der Sammlung des Nationalmuseums Stettin Inv.-Nr. MNS/Szt/195" [NB: Polish-language description available in the same source]. The basin interior appears to be also decagonal at the upper rim, like the exterior, even if the angles do not show quite as sharp. No cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 33U 687436 5998447

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [from Gotland]
Font Shape: decagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: decagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: decagonal
Basin Total Height: 29 cm* / **
Trapezoidal Basin: 62 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * Pomeranica / ** Krasnodębska (2022)

REFERENCES

Misterium Światła. Sztuka średniowieczna na Pomorzu / Das Mysterium des Lichts. Mittelalterliche Kunst in Pommern, kat. wyst., Szczecin: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2022
Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002
Krzymuska-Fafius, Zofia, Plastyka gotycka na Pomorzu Zachodnim. Katalog zbiorów, 1962
Kuczyńska, Jadwiga, "Średniowieczne chrzcielnice kamienne w Polsce", 14 (1984, Roczniki Humanistyczne: Historia Sztuki, 1984
Mehnert, Annemarie, Mittelalterliche Taufsteine in Vorpommern, 1934
Wardzyński, Michal, Import kamieni i dzieł rzeźby z Gotlandii i Olandii do Rzeczypospolitej (od XIII do 2. połowy XVIII wieku), „Porta Aurea” 2010, t. 9, s. 45–119, 2010