Goteborg No. 1 / Göteborg

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: on side 1 of the font, left half

Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F2] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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B02: human figure - male - lying down - fighting a quadruped

Scene Description: on side 1 of the font, right half

Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F2] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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B03: human figure - standing - orant? - between two quadrupeds passant

Scene Description: on side 2 of the font

Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F2] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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B04: human figure - standing - orant?

Scene Description: on side 3 of the fiont, left panel

Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F2] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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B05: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

Scene Description: facing the left; on side side 3 of the font, right panel

Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F2] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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B06: animal - bird - facing each other - at a plant or tree

Scene Description: on side 4 of the font

Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F2] [accessed 8 October 2010]

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CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

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R01: design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

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view of font - side 3

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

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view of font - sides 2-3

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

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view of font - sides 4 -1

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: note the anchoring notches for the font cover (?); the well has no drain

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16941GOT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 2010-08-11

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

Museum: Göteborgs stadsmuseum, G.M. 4332

Church / Chapel Name: [original church unkown]

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Site Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, Europe

Additional Comments: weathered font / disused font / moved font (in a museum)

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Hallbäck (1971-1972) [NB: covering fonts from the Skaraborg area of Västergötland]. Described and illustrated in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F2] [accessed 8 October 2010] as a sandtone baptismal font of the second half of the 12th century, now in the Göteborgs stadsmuseum; its original church is unknown, but the MB catalogue [cf. supra] lists it as being from the Västergötland region, in southwest Sweden. On-site notes: the font is monolithic, but of two volumes separated by a thick rope moulding; the lower volume is irregular -probably damaged- but was originally square with plain tapering sides; the upper half, the basin proper, has figural and animal, as well as floral motifs on the sides: 1)on the left a hexapetaled flower inscribed in a circle; on the right, a quadruped stands over -and appears to arrack- a human figure that is lying on the ground below the beast; 2)two facing quadrupeds with human figure with raised arms in between them; 3)two panels: a human figure with raised hands in the left panel and a passant quadruped facing it in the right panel; 4)two facing birds with a plant or tree in between them. The carving is very weathered now, but it was probably rather crude originally anyway. The inner well of the basin is imperfectly rounded, with cuts at 180-degree angles that appear to have been used to secure a font cover to the basin; there is no drain hole and the well is unlined; on the upper surface of the font there are two parallel incised grooves all around.

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage System: no drainage system

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (inside rim): 48-50 cm

Basin Depth: 22 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 63-65 cm [approx.]

Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 70 cm [approx.]

Notes on Measurements: BSI on site [the font is very irregular; all measurements are approximate]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 315