Goteborg No. 1 / Göteborg

Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Results: 12 records

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

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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010

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

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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

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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010

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

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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

Scene Description: on side 2 of the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010

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

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

B04: Human figure - standing - orant?

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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010

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

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

B05: animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010

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

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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

Scene Description: on side 4 of the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010

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

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

view of basin - interior

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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

view of font - side 3

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

view of font - sides 2-3

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

view of font - sides 4 -1

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010

INFORMATION

FontID: 16941GOT
Museum and Inventory Number: Göteborgs stadsmuseum
Church/Chapel: [original church unkown]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
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
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.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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; r["References"]