Cuneo No. 1 / Coni

Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009
Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi
Results: 7 records
B01: inscription
BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
BU02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
LB02: design element - motifs - foliage
UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 15065CUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chiesa cattedrale di Nostra Signora del Bosco
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Italy
Location: Cuneo, Piemonte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop of the Zabreri di Pagliero / Credo font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Don Roberto Mastacchi for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of marble by the Zabreri workshop of Pagliero in the 15th century; it consists of an octagonal basin with narrow sides decorated with the beginning of the Credo text; the underbowl has leaves at the angles and fleurs-de-lys between them; the stem widens at the centre with three mouldings with scotias between, all in the same coloured marble as the basin; the lower base is round at the top and octagonal at the splayed bottom, in grey marble, decorated with a round moulding at the top, and with insert (?) leaves on the sides.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Text: "Credo / in deum / pa[trem]"
Inscription Source: photograph