Askum No. 1

Results: 15 records

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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: or is it a schematic bird?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

BBU02: design element - architectural - arch-head - horseshoe?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

BBU03: design element - architectural - arch-head - round - foliage insert

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

LBF01: animal - mammal - lion - couchant - protome - with prey - human - 3

Scene Description: the characterisation as 'lions' can be easily challenged, but they are probably meant to be so

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

UB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: one at the top and one at the bottom of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

view of base

Scene Description: two of the man-eating lions (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2013 by Bjoertvedt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotenäs_Askums_kyrka_BBR_21400000443296_IMG_7005.JPG] [accessed 31 December 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in illustration in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font - side 1

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - side 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - side 3

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: as displayed in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum in August 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: as displayed in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum in August 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 16940ASK

Museum and Inventory Number: Göteborgs stadsmuseum

Church/Chapel: Askums kyrka

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located off (N) highway 171, E of 174, NNE of Sotenäs and in its municipality, near Uddevala

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift

Historical Region: Bohuslän, Västergötland, Sotenäs härad, Uddevala kn

Font Location in Church: [in a museum by 1878]

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Knippekolonnmästaren [Roosval & Gardell]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum, and to Lennart Karlsson, of the SHM's 'Medeltidens bildvärld', for their help in documenting this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878), who inform the font was already at the museum in Göteborg at the time. Noted in Roosval & Gardell (1944) as a font of the 'Knippekolonnmästaren' group. In Hallbäck (1961). In Nordström (1984). Described and illustrated in Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920901F6] as a baptismal font made of soapstone and dated to the 13th century; in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum; the SHM entry mentions the attribution to the 'Knippekolonnmästaren' in Roosval & Gardell cf. supra] but does not endorse it. On-site notes: the font consists of a quatrefoil basin -inside and out- raised on a pedestal made of four clustered colonnettes decorated with moulded capitals and bases, and a lower base made up of three protome lions that appear to be devouring humans. The outer upper side of the basin is decorated with three motifs: on one side is a single plan or flower, that could also be interpreted as a schematic bird; to the left is a series of round arch-heads with foliage inserts; to the right is a schematic arcade of round arch-heads of seemingly horse-shoe shape. The inner well of the basin is quatrefoil-shaped, like the exterior; it appears to have had a central drain hole, but in its place is now a metal rod that may be a reinforcement to keep the font stable. The lower base is triangular and appears to be intact. [triangular bases are rare on medieval fonts]. There is no font cover, nor are there taces of cover hardware on the basin. The inner well of the basin is not lined.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 58.415833, 11.3375

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 58 ° 24 '57 "N, 11 ° 20' 15" E

UTM: 32V 636545 6477381

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, soapstone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled

Drainage Notes: no lining [cf. FontNotes]

Diameter (includes rim): 72-73 cm* [widest] -- 51-55 cm* [narrowest] [Museum has 74 cm]

Basin Depth: 23-24 cm*

Basin Total Height: 30 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm* / ** / 92.5 cm** / 93 cm****

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on site / ** Medeltidens bildvärld / *** in ft/in in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878) / **** Göteborgs stadsmuseum

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961

Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984