Brena Alta No. 2 / Breña Alta

INFORMATION

FontID: 12260BRE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Spain
Location: Las Palmas, Canarias
Directions to Site: Located 9 km from Santa Cruz de La Palma, 23 km from Los Llanos, on the island of La Palma
Historical Region: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Hispano-Moresque / Mudéjar
Cognate Fonts: other such fonts at Los Sauces, Santiago de Arucas, Valsequillo and La Laguna, all in the Canary Islands
Hernández Perera (1952), after Gestoso y Pérez (1903), notes a beautiful ceramic (glazed earthenware) Mudéjar font of the late 15th or early 16th century in this church. These same sources note a group of similar fonts of Sevillian manufacture and sent to the Canary Islands which includes Breña Alta, Los Sauces, Gáldar (Arucas), La Laguna and Valsequillo [antes en Telde]. The Cabildo de Tenerife informs that the ceramic fonts were originally made in Seville and believed to have been brought to Tenerife for the baptism of the native Guanches [source: www.puntoinfo.idecnet.com]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: ceramic
Font Shape: pedestal font

REFERENCES

Gestoso y Pérez, José, Historia de los barros vidriados sevillanos: desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días, Sevilla: Imp. La Andalucía Moderna, 1903
Hernández Perera, José, "Una pila bautismal de cerámica vidriada sevillana en Gran Canaria", 25, 99 (1952: jul./sept.), Archivo español de arte, 1952, pp. 287; r["References"]