Askum No. 1
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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: or is it a schematic bird?
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BBU02: design element - architectural - arch-head - horseshoe?
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100811018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BBU03: design element - architectural - arch-head - round - foliage insert
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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
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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4
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UB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: one at the top and one at the bottom of the stem of the base
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view of font - side 3
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view of font - side 2
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view of font - side 1
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view of font in context
Scene Description: as displayed in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum in August 2010
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view of font in context
Scene Description: as displayed in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum in August 2010
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in illustration in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878)
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bjoertvedt, 2013
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]
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view of base
Scene Description: two of the man-eating lions (?)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16940ASK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2010-08-11
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Knippekolonnmästaren [Roosval & Gardell]
Museum: Göteborgs stadsmuseum, G.M. 137
Church / Chapel Name: Askums kyrka
Font Location in Church: in museum by 1878
Site Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe
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
Additional Comments: moved font / disused font (in a museum)
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 32V 636545 6477381
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 58.415833, 11.3375
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 58 ° 24 '57 "N, 11 ° 20' 15" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, soapstone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 8, 13, 35ff
- Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878, p. 19 and fig. 12
- Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984, p. 24