Roma No. 23 / Vaticano

Results: 6 records

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CR01: design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

CR02: design element - patterns - fretwork - Grecian / Greek

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

LB01: animal - mammal - lion - claw - with a lion head - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 13054ROM

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Vaticano

Church/Chapel: [not in a church]

Country Name: Italy

Location: Roma, Lazio

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Large baptismal font (?) consisting of a shallow dish-like marble basin decorated with a simple flat moulding at the upper rim, the surface on which the underbowl rests decorated with a row of gilded rosettes in foliage, and a band of fret pattern; the four legs are large feline claws, each topped with a lion head.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round