Roma No. 25 / Vaticano

INFORMATION

FontID: 13056ROM
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]
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,
an object consisting of a shallow round basin of sleek design decorated with a protruding rim which has a pattern of ball-in-socket motif, then a pronounced scotia, and an underbowl with a ribbed pattern; by contrast the base is made up of two bearded kneeling atlantes carrying large sacks on their bascks; the basin rests on the sacks, not the atlantes' backs. Possibly a holy-water stoup?

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round