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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2008

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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2008

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2008

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 13644DUB

Church/Chapel: Velika Gospa / [Cathedral Church of the Assumption]

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Country Name: Croatia

Location: Dubrovačko-Neretvanska Županija

Directions to Site: Located at Kneza Damjana Jude 1, Dubrovnik city centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1670?

Century and Period: 17th century, Baroque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font consisting of a round shallow basin decorated with a ribbed pattern all around, and heads at (two?) opposite ends; the upper rim a sharp moulding, with another such at the bottom of the underbowl; raised on a moulded baluster pedestal base and a minimal round plinth. A late work, probably of the date of the building itself, the Baroque period. Contemporary font cover with its cover shaped like a gilt-detailed low dome with a raised ball finial. [NB: the original church is said to have been built in the 6th or 7th century, and a later Romanesque building followed, but we have no information of the early baptismal fonts of this site]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]