Lincent

Described in Ghislain (1986) as a fragment of a Mosan baptismal font of the namurois group, one of a small uncommon mixed type in which the corners of the square top are made of four lion protomes surging from the rounded basin [the two others mentioned in Ghislain as part of this group are Sclayn and Villers-la-Ville] [NB: Ghislain gives the present [i.e., ca. 1986] location of this font as "Bruxelles, collection privéé"]. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the fragment of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, ca. 1155-1160, "Lieu de conservation indéterminé"; the provenance from the redundant parish church of Saint-Pierre, Lincent, was communicated by the 1954 owner "coll. Desneux, Bruxelles" to the count Joseph de Borgrave d'Altena. The fragment is the upper corner of a round basin with angles heads; it shows a characteristic lion head with vegetation stemming from its mouth in what was one of four corner spandrels of the upper surface; below it is a head identified by Ghislain (ibid.) as a lion's, and, to the right and left, the begininning of an arcade of blind round arches, somewhat similar in its decoration to the fonts at Sclayn, Villers-la-Ville, and the spandrels of the Beauvechain type. The present font in the church is mid-19th century, a shallow basin on a bulbous pedestal base; low-dome brass cover on it.