Harsefeld
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Results: 18 records
B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - Sun - Moon
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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12
Scene Description: each carrying his symbol, each identified by an inscription in the halo -
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B03: design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - columns with capitals and bases
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B04: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - Virgin crowned - enthroned
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B05: cleric - bishop - standing - wearing mitre - with staff in the right hand - with book in the left hand
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BBL01: inscription
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LBF01: human figure - standing - with book
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Scene Description: one of four [cf. Font notes]
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LBF02: human figure - standing - with book
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LBF03: human figure - standing - with book
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Scene Description: one of four [cf. Font notes]
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LBF04: human figure - standing - with book
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Scene Description: one of four [cf. Font notes]
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human figure - face, head or mask - 2
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inscription
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover located now at the east end, north side, to the left of the altar
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: Madonna and Child enthroned; on the viewer's right, a bishop; on the left, St. Bartholomew [NB: the church is dedicated to St. Mary and St. Bartholomew]
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view of font and cover - south side
Scene Description: on the basin side is the Crucifixion with Mary and John in attendance; to the right and left, the Apostles, identified by their symbols and the inscription in their haloes
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16261HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Marien- und Bartholomäi-Kirche in Harsefeld
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Bartholomew
Church Location: 21698 Harsefeld, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Lüneburg, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located on the L124, WSW of Hamburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, N side
Date: 1455
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ghert Klinghe (aka Gherd Klinghe / Gerd Klinge)
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Bad Segerberg, Harsefeld, Groothusen and Schleswig Cathedral are all the work of Ghert Klinghe
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of bronze by Ghert Klinghe (ca. 1400-1478) in 1455, consisting of a bucket-shaped basin with a protruding flat moulding at the upper rim bearing a Latin inscription that includes the date of the font; the sides are decorated with an arcade of Gothic arches that inscribe a Crucifixion scene, the Apostles, Madonna and Child, a bishop...; the lower rim also bears a Latin inscription; raised on four religious figures -both male and female?- at 90-degree angles. Low conical dome cover with foliated finial; there is two heads or masks at opposite ends of the cover; they appear to be the handles of the cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.4536, 9.50235
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 27′ 12.96″ N, 9° 30′ 8.46″ E
UTM: 32U 533358 5922849
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: transcription not available
Inscription Location: at the upper and lower rims of the basin
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century?
Material: metal, bronze
Apparatus: no
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