Seville No. 7 / Hispalis / Sevilla

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B01: design element - motifs - vine

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lobillo, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by Lobillo

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BBU01: symbol - rope - knotted - Franciscan cingulum?

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lobillo, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by Lobillo

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lobillo, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by Lobillo

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LB02: symbol - rope - knotted - Franciscan cingulum?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lobillo, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by Lobillo

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LB03: design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lobillo, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by Lobillo

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lobillo, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by Lobillo

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lobillo, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2007 by Lobillo

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view of object in context

Scene Description: the copy of the font installed as a public fountain in Talavera de la Reina [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javierg, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2004 by Javierg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Fuenteranas.jpg] [accessed 2 January 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14290SEV
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueológico (Plaza de América), Parque de María Luisa (Sevilla)
Church/Chapel: [in a museum]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Sevilla, Andalucía
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Hispano-Moresque / Mudéjar
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hispano-Moresque font
Cognate Fonts: a similar font at the Hospital de S. Lázaro , also in the city of Seville
One of several baptismal fonts in glazed green ceramic; it consists of a hemispheric basin decorated with the Franciscan knotted cingulum just below the moulded upper rim, the sides and underbowl covered in a number of vines with leaves and fruit;raised on a cylindrical pedestal with similar decoration, the cinculum motif appearing at the upper and lower ends of the stem, between mouldings, the rest of the stem covered in the same vines as the basin sides. The font, now in the Museo Arqueológico of the city of Seville, is raised on a modern octagonal plinth with a modern inscription. [NB: a copy of this font was made by Ruiz de Luna and installed in the Jardines del Prado, the so-called Fuente de las Ranas, in Talavera de la Reina].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: ceramic
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round