Conil de la Frontera

Results: 7 records

B1R01: design element - motifs - pine cone

Scene Description: a row

B1R02: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: tiny flowers between the pine cones of the upper row

B2R01: design element - motifs - pine cone

Scene Description: a row

B2R02: symbol - star - 6-point

Scene Description: between the pine cone (?) motifs

BU01: design element - motifs - pine cone

Scene Description: around the underbowl chamfer

LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: at the upper end of the stem

LB02: design element - patterns - torsade

INFORMATION

FontID: 11580CON
Church/Chapel: Iglesia [antiguo convento] de Nuestra Señora de las Virtudes [originally from the Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Catalina]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cádiz, Andalucía
Directions to Site: Located on the CA-213, off the N-340, 40-45 km from Cádiz capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the conventual church, by the wall [originally from the old parish church of Sta. Catalina, but moved to the conventual church that seved as parish church since 1930]
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Hispano-Moresque / Mudéjar
Workshop/Group/Artisan: glazed ceramic font by Triana workshop?
Cognate Fonts: Other such in the prov. of Sevilla
Noted and illustrated in the 'Guía artística de Cádiz y su provincia' (2005) as a baptismal font in the Mudéjar style of the 15th or 16th century made of glazed ceramic in the workshops of Triana; this same source informs that the font was originally from the Antigua Parroquia de Santa Catalina, the old parish church of Conil built in the 15th century in the Mudéjar style that was closed in 1930, with the cult moved to the formerlly conventual church of the Iglesia del Convento de Nuestra Señora de las Virtudes. The font, glazed in a dark-green hue, consists of a cylindrical basin the sides of which are decorated with an upper row of pine cones (?) with tiny florettes (?) between them, and a lower one also with pine cones (?) and six-point stars between them; there is another row of the cone (?) motif around the underbowl; the cylindrical pedestal base is decorated with a roll moulding at the upper end, the sides covered in a torsade pattern. The thick flat wooden cover appears 19th-century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: ceramic, glazed ceramic
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Guía artística de Cádiz y su provincia, Cádiz: Diputación de Cádiz, 2005