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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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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 - 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 - 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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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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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)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16773BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Gothic
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 ou Brussel, Belgium, Europe
Additional Comments: disused font / moved to a museum
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.
[No cover present but there are two metal staples in the upper rim from a previous font cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Pol Herman for his help in 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: 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