Lubiana / Alt Libbehne / Łubiana
Image copyright © Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2020
Image and permission received from Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie (e-mail of 20 February 2024)
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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)
design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: over the arches of the arcade
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)
design element - architectural - arcade
Scene Description: each arch containing a fancy lion
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)
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
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie (e-mail of 20 February 2024)
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a leaf in each spandrel of the arcade
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 -- 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 © 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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA
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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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Berggren (2002: 159 pl. 15)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09145LUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Fröjelgruppen?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Museum: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Wały Chrobrego 3,, MNS/Szt/195
Church / Chapel Name: [Łubiana parish church -- demolished 1955]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Previous Font Location(s): Łubiana parish church -- demolished 1955
Church Notes: medieval church destroyed in the Thirty Years' War; demolished 1955-1957
Church Address: [NB: location and coordinates given for Łubiana]
Site Location: Gmina Pełczyce, Zachodniopomorskie / West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, Europe
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
Additional Comments: recycled font: now in a museum
Font Notes:
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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.
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
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, [https://cyfrowa.muzeum.szczecin.pl/item/viewer?id=9] [accessed 22 February 2024]
- 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, kat. 6: 32-33
- Kuczyńska, Jadwiga, "Średniowieczne chrzcielnice kamienne w Polsce", 14 (1984, Roczniki Humanistyczne: Historia Sztuki, 1984
- Mehnert, Annemarie, Mittelalterliche Taufsteine in Vorpommern, 1934, p. 39-41
- 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, t. 9: 51–53