Maastricht No. 3 / Maestricht

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Results: 23 records

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B01: Apostle or saint - St. Servitius?

Scene Description: the scroll on the figure may have identified it in the past [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B02: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B03: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B04: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter? - holding 1 key?

Scene Description: only part of the key has survived

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: only part of the mane and claws remain now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the basin arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - motifs - foliage or vine

Scene Description: on the rim around the top of the inner basin well

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the hands of one of the figures hold a column of the arcade [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the hands in the scene on the broken side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: both sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - fragment - detail

Scene Description: the three figures protrated at the feet of the saint; notice the rich clothing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - fragment - detail

Scene Description: the feet of the three figures on the front side of the fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - fragment - front

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - fragment - side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2008 by Berthold Werner

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 February 2011 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SculptuurRomaansDoopvont03.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 February 2011 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SculptuurRomaansKapiteel02.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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view of font - fragment

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 February 2011 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SculptuurRomaansKapiteel02.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the fragment as it is now displayed: front

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: the side of the fragment as it is now displayed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2010 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16886MAA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Sint-Servaasbasiliek [aka Sintervaosbasiliek / Sint-Servaaskerk]

Church Patron Saints: St. Servatius of Tongeren [aka Sarbatius, Servais, Servatius of Maastricht]

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Limburg

Directions to Site: [Coordinates for the church: 50° 50′ 55″ N, 5° 41′ 14″ E 50.848611, 5.687222] Maastricht is north of Liège, in the Limburg province.

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: The original stone church is said to date from the 6th century, but the present building dates from the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, with additions and changes through later centuries. It became the main parish church of Maastricht in the early 19th century.

Font Notes: Click to view

Fragment of a quadrangular font originally mounted on columns; only one side of the basin, and a small corner of the lower base remain; the basin fragment appears to be almost a full side and has an arcade of three round arches on columns with capitals and bases; in each arch is a standing haloed male figure: at the left the figure holds the column to the right with both hands; the figure in the centre arch holds its mantle with both hands; the figure in the right arch has only the right hand visible, the left being inside the mantle; the clothing of the figures is rich, with decorating motifs; some of the figures wear footwear, others are in bare feet; in the spandrels of the arcade are foliage motifs, but at the extreme right , below the spandrel is part of large key that was probably held by the figure in the next arch on the now missing side; the left side of the fragment has part of a scene that appears not to have been inscribed in an arch: a male figure stands on the right dressed in clerical clothing [bishop's?], perhaps St. Servatius himself [Servatius was bishop of Maastricht in the late 4th century]; the scene includes several figures prostrated at the foot of the standing cleric, and there is a hand with a finger pointed towards the cleric's head on the left, but the rest of the scene is missing; the upper surface of the rim shows part of the broad rim of the inner basin, decorated with a vine or foliage; the spandrels and the rest of the upper surface is also busily decorated but the details are very worn and difficult to identify [especially since the fragment is encased in a protective glass cage]; the fragment of the base shows traces of a mane and claws, probably the remains of lions that decorated this part of the font. The design of the font, as well as the style of carving, is quite similar to those of the Tournai fonts of the 12th century, and could possibly be from one of the workshops associated with the production of Tournai fonts, although the stone of this font is not the dark black-blue limestone characteristic of the Tournai group. The original stone church is said to date from the 6th century, but the present building dates from the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, with additions and changes through later centuries. It became the main parish church of Maastricht in the early 19th century. Pubben (2019) argues that these feagments are part of the same font as those in Merksem [cf. BSI entry for Merksem]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: fragment

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: unlined

REFERENCES

Pubben, Sid, "De Fontibus Salvatoris: Over herkomst, gebruik en iconografievan een twaalfde-eeuws doopvontin Maastricht en Brussel", [e-version available], 2019