Kuruppampady

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BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage - lotus?

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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed

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LB01: design element - motifs - floral - lotus?

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LB02: design element - motifs - foliage - lotus?

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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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UB01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - rampant - Vritra? - 4

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UB02: design element - motifs - spindle - 4

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15964KUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: India
Location: Ernakulam, Kerala
Font Location in Church: inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Indo-Portuguese
Noted and illustrated in Carita (2009); baptismal font of the Indo-Portuguese period/style consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a thin roll moulding at the upper rim, a brod mouldin of (lotus?) leaves below, and a ribbed pattern coverin the rest of the sides and underbowl all around; on the short stem there are four fierce-looking rampant dragons at 90 -degree angles; brightly painted in bl;ack, red and white [Carita (ibid.) relates them to the Hindu myth of the dragon Vritra];between the dragons the stem has been carved through around gloden spindles; below both is a pattern of (lotus?) leaves; the octagonal lower base has graded mouldings with lotus flowers and leaves alternating on the sides. The bacground color of the font exterior is green, and there are gold accents as well as the colours noted for the dragons. [cf. Index entries for Kanjoor and Kadamattom for other examples of this font type]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Carita, Helder, Indo-Portuguese architecture in Cochin and Kerala, New Delhi: Transbooks.com, 2009