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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the sides, between the heads
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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 - moulding - graded
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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 - moulding - parallel - 2
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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 - roll moulding
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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 - 8?
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Walker (1883) from a drawing by Th. Guyot
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Walker (1883) from a drawing by Th. Guyot
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the two metal staples in the upper rim
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [origin unknown] furnished by Pol Herman (e-mail of 14 October 2021)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16773BRU
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 ou Brussel
Font Location in Church: in a museum
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font; illustrated in Walker (1883) with a drawing by Th. Guyot; it consists of an octagonal basin with moulded sides and, between the mouldings, a band of foliage and fruit, with human faces or masks at the angles; tapering octagonal stem to a centre ring moulding, then splaying out to a moulded base, also octagonal; round inner basin well. [NB: we have not been able to identify it with any of the other fonts at the museum]
[No cover present but there are two metal staples in the upper rim from a previous font cover.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; fig. 9