Montemale di Cuneo

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B01: inscription

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BU01: coat of arms - 8?

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CR01: symbol - letter

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LB01: symbol - letter - M

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15071MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrocchiale di S. Michele Arcangelo
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Italy
Location: Cuneo, Piemonte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the right of the entrance
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop of the Zabreri di Pagliero' style? / Credo font / heraldic font
Font Notes:
"Parrocchiale di san Michele Arcangelo, che contiene due acquasantiere e un fonte battesimale ottagonali, verosimilmente del XVI secolo, ornati di stemmi, monogrammi e sculture floreali" [source: http://www.cnemozioni.it/index.php?ARTE_E_ARCHITETTURA:Luoghi_d%26rsquo%3Binteresse_architettonico [accessed 2 August 2009]]. Another source, Chiese romaniche e gotiche del Piemonte [www.isper.org/fondazione/chiese_piemonte/] [accessed 2 August 2009], notes: "alla sinistra del portale di ingresso acquasantiera della seconda metà del '400 attribuita alla scuola dei fratelli Zabreri, della stessa scuola il fonte battesimale a destra dell'entrata. Un altro fonte battesimale del 1567 con indicazione del committente e data è stato liberato nel 1972 dalle strutture murarie che lo rinserravano." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with an inscription around the narrow sides; the tal curved underbowl has pairs of crowned charged shields and crowned emblems [one is a crowned M, for Mary the Virgin, one would think, unless it stands for Montemale]; the pedestal base has the usual shape but the protruding centre ring is roun, not the usual octagonal of the Zabreri fonts; the splaying lower base has a scalloped finish, the letter M prominent on one of the scallops. The font cover is a modern octagonal low-pyramid with a ball finial; modern. This font is most likely the product of a local mason that followed the general design of the Zabreri workshop fonts [NB: Mastacchi has it as "not Zabreri" -- e-mail to BSI, July 2009]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Text: [transcription not available] [Credo?]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]