Roma No. 20 / Vaticano
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007
INFORMATION
FontID: 13050ROM
Church/Chapel: San Pietro in Vaticano
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: Santa Sede / Vaticano
Location: Vaticano
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
One of the coloured marble holy-water stoups, consisting of a shallow round basin with a pronounced lip and a deep scotia at the upper rim, raised on a round baluster-type base and a square pyramidal lower base; set near one of the marble pillars of the nave, it has a pair of bronze tritons with entangled tails, the tails against the pillar and the heads on the rim of the stoup.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round