Glencairn Museum No. 4

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Results: 6 records

B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - quadruped

Scene Description: several, with bird-like heads

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B02: animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: several, intertwined with the quadrupeds

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B03: animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey - snake

Scene Description: the tails of the snakes end/start in the mask-like lion head

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BBU01: animal - fabulous animal or monster

Scene Description: "A recumbent lizard-like creature, whose tail ends in a foliage swag", Cahn [cf. Font notes]

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BBU02: design element - motifs - foliage

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09403GLE
Museum and Inventory Number: The Glencairn Museum, The Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, PA
Church/Chapel: [original location unknown: Southern France]
Country Name: United States
Location: Pennsylvania
Directions to Site: The Glencairn Museum of the Academy of the New Church, is located in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Though not a stoup, a similar capital is reported by Cahn [cf. FontNotes below] in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (no. 16.973)
Former capital hollowed out to be used as holy-water stoup. Identified in the Glencairn Museum collection with no. 09.SP.16 as: "Sculpture, limestone -- French -- Capital with intertwining figures, masks -- XIII century [no provenance recorded]. Description: Capital with bodies of birds and lions intertwined. Strongly flared from base to abacus, bodies of lions curve outward to support four corners of abacus. In the center of each side an animal mask as boss. Abacus decorated with rinceaux and imaginary birds. Vey lively carving style, high relief, deep undercutting; lions' torsos carved free from block." Described and illustrated in Cahn (1977-1999, vol. II: 63-64), who suggests origin from southern France and dates the capital to the 12th-13th century, one of several that "illustrate the persistence of Romanesque formulas at a time well beyond the heyday of the style." He describes the animal in the impost as "a recumbent lizard-like creature, whose tail ends in a foliage swag", and points out that "a somewhat weaker version of the same design is in the Natinal Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (No. 16.973). [We are grateful to The Glencairn Museum, Academy of the New Church, Brynn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and to Nathan Cole, for the information on, and images of this object]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: Other (capital)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: other (capita -- rectangular topl)
Basin Total Height: 31.1 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 40 x 27.9 cm*
Notes on Measurements: The Glencairn Museum (e-mail to BSI dated 10/3/2004) *[NB: the measurements in Cahn (1979-1999, vol. II: 62) vary slightly: 31.7 x 41.9 x 27.9 cm]

REFERENCES

Cahn, Walter, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections (2 vols.), New York [v.1]; Turnhout, Belgium [v.2]: B. Franklin [v. 1]; Brepols [v.2], 1979-1999
Hayward, J., Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymon Pitcairn Collection, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982