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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: [detail]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1930
Image Source: AMICO Library [PMA_.1930-79-1] [detail
Copyright Instructions: Licensed for non-commercial, educational use]
BBU01: design element - motifs - circle
Scene Description: a row of, all around the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1930
Image Source: AMICO Library [PMA_.1930-79-1] [detail
Copyright Instructions: Licensed for non-commercial, educational use]
LB01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the capitals of the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1930
Image Source: AMICO Library [PMA_.1930-79-1] [detail
Copyright Instructions: Licensed for non-commercial, educational use]
view of fountain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1930
Image Source: AMICO Library [PMA_.1930-79-1]
Copyright Instructions: Licensed for non-commercial, educational use]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10047PHI
Object Type: Other
Object Details: fountain
Font Date: 1125-1150
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1930-79-1
Church / Chapel Name: [source unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19130, United States
Site Location: Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Directions to Site: Located in the Fairmount area of downtown Philadelphia, on the E bank of the river
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in AMICO as a fountain made of marble originally from the Roussillon in southern France; the basin is decorated with a blind arcade of round arches, and is raised on a columnar base with decorated capitals; dating is given as "1125-50" and the prvenance as a "Gift of Mrs. William W. Fitler in memory of her husband 1930".. [AMICO library rec. id no.: PMA_.1930-79-1] [Philadelphia Museum of Art accession no.: 1930-79-1]
COORDINATES
UTM: 18S 484509 4423981
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 39.965833, -75.181389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 39° 57′ 57″ N, 75° 10′ 53″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (with Plinth): 256.5
Notes on Measurements: Philadelphia Museum of Art [in AMICO PMA_.1930-79-1]