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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 2
head - grotesque or fantastic - foliage stemming from the mouth
human figure - head - 4
view of basin
view of basin
INFORMATION
FontID: 16772BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
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]
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