Parnu / Pärnu / Pernau / Piarnou / Pyarnu
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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Nõmmik, 1949
Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Nõmmik in Tuulse (1949)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Nõmmik, 1949
Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Nõmmik in Tuulse (1949)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 12331PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Nikolai Kirik
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: Estonia
Location: Pärnumaa
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten / müschelcuppa variant
Cognate Fonts: another such basin [but with sixteen sides] at Kaarma, on the island of Saaremaa
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Tuulse (1949): limestone baptismal font with a basin of a variant type he describes as 'polygonalen Müschelcuppen'; the top of the basin is dodecagonal, the sides decorated with twelve broad ribs thar continue on the rounded underbowl; there is a scotia under the upper rim of the basin, followed down by two thing mouldings; the basin is raised on a splaying round pedestal base.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
REFERENCES
Tuulse, Armin, "Mittlealterliche Taufsteine in Estland", Apophoreta tartuensia: acta universitati tartuensi (dorpatensi) ad diem restitutionis kal. dec. MCMXIX nunc tricesimum celebrandum a professoribus discipulisque eorum in exilio dedicata = Pühendusteos: Eesti Vabriigi Tartu Ülikoolile tema avamise [...], Holmiae = Stockholm: Societas Litterarum Estonica in Svecia = Eesti Teaduslik Selts Rootsis, 1949