Goteborg No. 2 / Göteborg
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Results: 20 records
B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - rayed nimbus - right hand raised in benediction - left hand holding book
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - with 2 keys in his right hand - holding bishop staff in his left hand
Scene Description: not haloed
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
B03: Apostle or saint - St. Michael - with scales in his right hand - holding staff in his left hand
Scene Description: not a sword; more like a staff or crutch; not haloed
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
B04: human figure - female - noble - with male figure - warrior - wearing a sword
![the figure on the left is probably female, and is wearing a luxurious hat and cape [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100811040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the figure on the left is probably female, and is wearing a luxurious hat and cape [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
B05: human figure - standing - with quadruped on altar?
Scene Description: a sacrifice scene? Isaac?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010
Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F3] [accessed 8 October 2010]
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B06: Apostle or saint - kneeling - haloed - holding up object
Scene Description: the haloed figure faces the arch to the right, in which sits Christ in majesty; the kneeling figure holds up an object that is easily identified: a chalice? a building? on the right side of the head there appears to be a long flock of hair, suggesting perhaps a feminine figure. Besides Christ it is the only haloed figure (not even Peter and Michael have haloes). Is it the Virgin? Ecclesia?
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Majestas domini
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010
Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F3] [accessed 8 October 2010]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: St. Peter, dressed in priestly clothes and holding keys and bishop staff
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010
Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F3] [accessed 8 October 2010]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: St. Michael, not haloed, holding the scales; what is the object in his left hand? Not a sword
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010
Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F3] [accessed 8 October 2010]
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view of basin - detail
![the embracing figures; the hat on the figure on the left has been identified as a woman's [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100811045_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the embracing figures; the hat on the figure on the left has been identified as a woman's [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010
Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F3] [accessed 8 October 2010]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the kneeling holy figure; what is the object in her (?) hand?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Medeltidens bildvärld, 2010
Image Source: digital image in in 'Medeltidens bildvärld' [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid=920901F3] [accessed 8 October 2010]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: notice the damage at opposite ends of the upper rim; probable evidence of removed cover hardware
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
view of font - side 1
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
view of font - side 2
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view of font - side 3
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
view of font - side 4
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
view of font - side 6
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view of font in context
Scene Description: as displayed at the Göteborgs stadsmuseum in August 2010
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed 11 August 2010
view of iconographic program
Scene Description: the iconographic programme on the font, starting with the Majestas Domini (L->R)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: original source unknown; drawing signed 'HN' supplied by the Göteborgs stadsmuseum to BSI, 11 August 2010
Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD
view of iconographic program
Scene Description: the iconographic programme on the font, starting with the Majestas Domini (L->R)
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Image Source: BSI sketch done on site 11 August by Harriet Sonne de Torrens
INFORMATION
FontID: 16942GOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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]
Date: ca. 1190-1220?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Othelrics skola?
Cognate Fonts: Kestad?
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
Font Notes:
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Noted in Hallbäck (1971-1972). Described in Dahlberg (1998: 112) as a baptismal font of unknown origin now in the Göteborg Museum; it is believed to have originated somewhere in the central regions of Västergötland; its basin is ornamented with and arcade of six arches containing figural motifs, similar to the ones on the Kestad font [cf. Index entry for Kestad]. Described and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920901F3] as a sandtone baptismal font of the second half of the 12th century. On-site notes: stone baptismal font of unknown origin, thought to be from the area of Skara, in the Västergötland region of southwest Sweden, now in the custody of the Göteborgs stadsmuseum. Only the original cylinrical basin remains; the iconographic programme develops inside an arcade of six round arches supported on single circular columns with capitals and bases;: 1)Majestas domini; Christ with rayed halo has right hand raised in benediction, the left on his lap holding a book; 2)St. Peter standing dressed in priestly clothes and holding up two large keys in his right hand, the left holding a bishop's staff; 3) standing figure holding scales (?) in his rights hand, a stick (?) in his left, not the usual sword, but an object resembling a crutch (?); 4)a male figure on the left, wearing a sword is hugged by a caped woman in a tall hat [cf. Simris font?]; 5)a human figure (male?) stands on the right, part of its left side behing a cape or mantle on which stands a small quadruped (sacrifice? Isaac?); 6)a haloed figure kneells with the body facing to the right, but the head turned full fron, holding up an object (chalice? building?); behind the figure is a tall plant or tree. All around the bottom, except wehere broken off, is a thick rope moulding. There is some damage to the font, especially around the bottom. The inner basin well is not lined; it has a central drain hole. There is no base, although, given the dimensions of the basin, it would have had one originally. There is no font cover, but there are traces of cover hardware in the damage showing at opposite ends of the upper basin rim.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 41 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 57 cm
Basin Depth: 19-20 cm
Height of Basin Side: 38-40 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on site
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Dahlberg, Markus, Västervik: AB CO Ekblad & Co Tryckeri, 1998
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Skaraborg", 1971-1972, Västergötlands Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1971-1972, pp. 39-357; p. 97ff, 314