Vesilahti / Vesilaks / Vesilax
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Scene Description: in the museum; the stone font is from Mietoinen, Finland
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design element - patterns - interlace
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Image Source: reproduced in www.vesilahti.fi/matkailu/tourist-information/wood-church-design/ [accessed 2 September 2012]
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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
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information
Scene Description: museum label
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Scene Description: the National Museum of Helsinki
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18168VES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2012-08-12
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Museum: Kansallis Museo / National Museum, Helsinki
Church / Chapel Name: Vesilahden kirkko
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: 37470 Vesilahti, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Site Location: Pirkanmaa / Birkaland / Pampere, Finland, Europe
Directions to Site: Vesilahti is a municipality located off road 2982, 25-30 km SSW of Tampere
Historical Region: Western Finland
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Karlsson (1976) after Appelgren-Kivalo (1910). Baptismal font made of wood, originally from the church in Vesilahti, Pirkanmaa, now [12 August 2012] in the National Museum of Helsinki. The font is probably made of a single piece of wood, but displays three well defined volumes: 1)a cylindrical basin decorated with an interlace between two mouldings, the area below carved into square blocks, and a plain underbowl; 2)a thick centre ring carved with a two-strand braid; 3)a round splaying base, totally plain. The low-dome wooden cover is round and plain, with a tall knotted finial.
COORDINATES
UTM: 34V 640124 6799939
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: the inside of the basin appears to have a hole in the centre, but it would have been lined originally
Notes on Measurements: [measurements not taken]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 14th - 16th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Karlsson, Lennart, Romansk träornamentik i Sverige, Stockholm: Stokholm University, 1976-1977, p. 140, fig. 87