Gruhno

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

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B02: animal - bird - dove - facing each other - eating bunch of grapes or arum - 2

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13808GRU
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Gruhnos Dorfkirche
Country Name: Germany
Location: Brandenburg, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Doberlug-Kirchhein, in Gemeinde Schönborn, Landkreis Elbe-Elster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cycled capital], Romanesque [altered]
Font Notes:
Illustrated in Knüvener (2008). A former capital re-used as a holy-water stoup; the capital is square, with a pair of birds picking at fruit in the midst of a busy interlace of foliage on the front side; the underside is decorated with a pattern of long flat leaves above a ring moulding; raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base, and then directly on the ground.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Knüvener, Peter, "Die Kunst des Mittelalters in der Mark Brandenburg: eine Einführung", Die Kunst des Mittelalters in der Mark Brandenburg: Tradition - Transformation - Innovation, Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2008