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animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16? - columns - columns with capitals and bases
view of basin
INFORMATION
FontID: 16771BRU
Museum and Inventory Number: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles / Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis - Brussel
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Font Location in Church: in a museum
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Square stone basin of a baptismal font; illustrated in Walker (1883) with a drawing by Th. Guyot; lion heads at the angles, blind arcades of four round arches on the sides; inner well of the basin is round [NB: we have not been able to identify it with any of the other fonts at the museum]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; r["References"]