Yanhuitlan / Yanhuitlán
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BBU01: design element - patterns - leafy
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BU02: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at the top and bottom ends of the central shaft of the stem -- [cf. Font notes]
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LB02: design element - patterns - torsade
Scene Description: on the central shaft of the stem -- [cf. Font notes]
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LB03: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base of the central shaft -- [cf. Font notes]
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LB04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - devouring prey - 4
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mónica Domínguez Torres, 2006
Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México), 1962
Image Source: B&W photograph in Gorbea Trueba (1962)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México), 1962
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Gorbea Trueba (1962)
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view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México), 1962
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Gorbea Trueba (1962)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11903YAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1590?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late), Tequitqui
Church / Chapel Name: Templo y ex-Convento de Santo Domingo de Yanhuitlan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Address: Miguel Hidalgo S/N Sección, Primera, 69660 Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán, Oax., Mexico
Site Location: Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Directions to Site: Located off road 190, in the Distrito de Nochixtlán, about 80 km NW of Oaxaca capital
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Gorbea Trueba (1962). Probably the most original baptismal font of the early colonial period in Mexico, its rarety being related to the shape of the base, a variation of the classical five-support so common on many early fonts; the central shaft is roughly cylindrical, with torsade pattern covering the sides between the round mouldings at top and bottom; the variance is in the outer colonnettes which, in this case take the shape of four semi-arches set at 90-degree angles, and consisting of monstruous heads at the top devouring reptile tubular bodies that make the stems and bases of the colonnettes; the contrast between the classical Western European element of the central shaft with the life-like dynamism of the outer colonnettes is very striking; the basin itself is hemispherical to the upper basin levbel where it splays outwards; the sides are decorated with foliage on the underbowl and lower sides up to a thin moulding, then a narrow band of the same foliage pattern to the next moulding, and lastly another narrow band of leafy pattern of a different shape to the upper rim moulding; there is damage to one of the sides of the upper rim [related perhaps to the anchoring hardware of the cover?]. [We are grateful to professor Mónica Domínguez, of the Dept. of Art History, University of Delaware, for her images of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 14Q 675949 1938616
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 17.526944, -97.3425
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 17° 31′ 37″ N, 97° 20′ 33″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Christian, John T., Baptist history vindicated, 1899, pl. 27