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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken at the Museum of Civilization on 27 September 2008 by BSI
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken at the Museum of Civilization on 27 September 2008 by BSI
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken at the Museum of Civilization on 27 September 2008 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 13879OTT
Museum and Inventory Number: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa
Church/Chapel: [not in a church -- original church unknown]
Country Name: Canada
Location: Ontario
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1865?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
A baptismal font from ca. 1865 consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with trefoiled arch-heads on the sides; the lower rim of the basin is scalloped, the trumpets decorating the underbowl; on a short floriated capital and a slender shaft imitating green marble; splayed octagonal lower base. Octagonal wooden cover with Latin cross finial. The object is identified in the Museum label as being made of "Wood and paint".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1865?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]