Huejotzingo

Image copyright © Fernández, 1992
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Results: 5 records
B01: symbol - wheat - sheaf
B02: symbol - tree or plant?
R01: symbol - rope - knotted - Franciscan cingulum?
view of base
INFORMATION
FontID: 13854HUE
Church/Chapel: Ex-Convento Franciscano?
Country Name: Mexico
Location: Puebla
Century and Period: 16th century, Tequitqui
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font of the 16th century consisting of a cylindrical basin decorated with a moulding shaped like a Franciscan cingulum at the upper rim; below it are a number of motifs: protruding sheafs of wheat, tendrils or branches, etc., some of them still painted; the underbowl chamfer is plain and crudely cut (perhaps as a result of having had the lower part of the basin carved off?); It is mounted on a strange platform described in Fernández (1992) as "a circular piece which contains Talavera ceramic of Puebla".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Fernández, Miguel Angel, La Jerusalén indiana: los conventos-fortaleza mexicanos del siglo XVI, México: Edición privada de Smurfit Cartón y Papel de México, SAdeCV, 1992