Ciudadela No. 2 / Ciutadella

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Results: 5 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: framing human heads, all around

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B02: human figure - head

Scene Description: inside each of the arches on the basin sides

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: almost completely obliterated now

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12047CIU
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Menorca, Islas Baleares / Illes Balears
Directions to Site: Located at the western end of the island
Font Location in Church: In the patio of the cloister of the Old Seminary
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Mounted holy-water stoup consisting of a roughly bucket-shaped basin on a moulded circilar base; it is now located in the inner courtyard of the old Seminary of this town; below the damaged rim on which the rope moulding has been almost entirely oblterated, are sides decorated with human heads framed in garland arches ; mouldings all down the circular base; the object is generally in a poor condition with damage evident all over but especially around the upper rim. As with the other baptismal object noted in this Index as Ciudadela No. 1, we have no information on the original church where this object came from. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for the photographs of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round