Conil de la Frontera

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.