Revello

Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009
Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi
Results: 8 records
B01: inscription
BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
BU02: design element - motifs - scallop - 8
CR01: inscription
LB01: design element - motifs
UB01: design element - architectural - column
UB02: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 15076REV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chiesa Collegiata Maria Vergine Assunta [now a parish church]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Italy
Location: Cuneo, Piemonte
Directions to Site: Located just W of Saluzzo, SW of Torino / Turin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1495
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop of the Zabreri di Pagliero / Credo stoup
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Don Roberto Mastacchi for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Zabreri workshop; the octagonal basin bears the Credo inscription on its narrow sides; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with the characteristic broad leaves at the angles and scallops below; the stem is octagonal and decorated with short colonnettes or piping between the different sections, the centre ring octagonal and with an inscription of the sides [date?] as usual in these fonts; octagonal lower base with motifs on its upper surface. The wooden cover is of the rim-buffet type, octagonal, painted and gilded.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: 1) on the basin sides
2) on the centre ring of the base
Inscription Text: 1) [Credo text -- transcription not available]
2) [date?]
Inscription Source: photograph
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]