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view of basin
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Walker (1883) from a drawing by Th. Guyot
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: some appear to be male
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Walker (1883) from a drawing by Th. Guyot
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 2
Scene Description: on one of the four panels of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Walker (1883) from a drawing by Th. Guyot
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human figure - head - grotesque or fantastic - foliage stemming from the mouth
Scene Description: on one of the four panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Walker (1883) from a drawing by Th. Guyot
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [origin unknown] furnished by Pol Herman (e-mail of 14 October 2021)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KMKG-MRAH, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph furnished by Pol Herman (e-mail of 14 October 2021)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16772BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Museum: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles / Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis - Brussel
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: in a museum
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] Parc du Cinquantenaire 10, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 2 741 73 31
Site Location: Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium, Europe
Additional Comments: disused font / moved to a museum
Font Notes:
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Round stone basin of a baptismal font; illustrated in Walker (1883) with a drawing by Th. Guyot; human heads at 90-degree angles; between them, on the sides, two floral motifs resembling the fleur-de-lis on one side; on another side a head or mascaron with tentacle-like shoots stemming from it; the decoration on the other two sides not shown in the source.[NB: we have not been able to identify it with any of the other fonts at the museum]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 597954 5632831
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.838889, 4.391183
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 20″ N, 4° 23′ 28.26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, with heads
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
REFERENCES
- Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; fig. 8