Archidona
Results: 13 records
B01: symbol - disc
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120102007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
B02: symbol - star
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
B03: symbol - acorn
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
B04: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
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B05: Christ - monogram - IHS - in a shield
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
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B07: human figure - child
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jacinto Muñoz Nuevo, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jacinto Muñoz Nuevo [http://artidona.blogspot.com/2009/10/la-primera-pila-bautismal-de-archidona.html] [accessed 2 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
B09: symbol - shell - pilgrim shell
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
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R01: symbol - rope - knotted - Franciscan cingulum?
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
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view of font
Scene Description: ca. 1919?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Fototipia de Hauser y Menet, Madrid, in Gestoso y Pérez (1919)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landahlauts, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2010 by Landahlauts [www.flickr.com/photos/landahlauts/] [accessed 2 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12262ARC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Hispano-Moresque / Mudéjar
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hispano-Moresque font
Cognate Fonts: similar to the basin at La Laguna, of Sevillian origin
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de la Virgen de Gracia de Archidona
Font Location in Church: Inside the rural chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: The ermita was built in the 15thC on the site of an existing mosque of the 9th-10thC
Church Address: Camino del Santuario s/n, 29300, Archidona, Málaga, Spain
Site Location: Málaga, Andalucía, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-7200, SE of the A92, 45-50 km N of Málaga capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Málaga
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Gestoso y Pérez (1919). Hernández Perera (1952) points out that the basin of the baptismal font at La Laguna [cf. Index entry for La Laguna No. 1] has decorative motifs similar to those on the font from this 'ermita': discs, stars and acorns. The font, made of glazed ceramic, consists of a hemispherica basin raised on a circular pedestal base; the upper rim sides are decorated with a triple moulding simulating a Franciscan cingulum; below it are dozens of small symbols (IHS, acorn, human figure, fleur-de-lis, etc.), and another cingulum about half-way down, with some larger palmettes (?) on the underbowl; the cylindrical stem has mouldings at both ends, and the surface between is completely covered in motifs and symbols. Like the font at La Laguna, and other ceramic fonts made in Seville but exported to the Canary Islands listed in this Index, it is probably dated from the end of the 15th century. The font is now fitted with a reinforcing metal band just below the rim.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30S 376830 4106885
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 37.100184, -4.386088
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 37° 6′ 0.66″ N, 4° 23′ 9.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: ceramic, glazed ceramic
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
- Gestoso y Pérez, José, "Cerámica sevillana", 27 (1919), 1er trimestre, Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, 1919, pp. 2-19; fig. 4
- 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; p. 293