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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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BBU01: design element - patterns - leafy

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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BU02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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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]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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LB02: design element - patterns - torsade

Scene Description: on the central shaft of the stem -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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LB03: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base of the central shaft -- [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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LB04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - devouring prey - 4

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Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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view of base - detail

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Gorbea Trueba (1962)

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view of basin

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Gorbea Trueba (1962)

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view of font

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph taken by Mónica Domínguez

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Gorbea Trueba (1962)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11903YAN

Church/Chapel: Templo y ex-Convento de Santo Domingo

Country Name: Mexico

Location: Oaxaca

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1590?

Century and Period: 16th century(late), Tequitqui

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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]

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