San Giovanni di Sinis No. 2
Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 September 2013)
Results: 10 records
animal - fish
Scene Description: a large one, flat on the bottom of the inner well
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 September 2013)
angel - cherub - head - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the basin sides
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
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design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: a band of, all around
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
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design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arch-heads
Scene Description: very stylised
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the stoup is located just outside this photograph, at the bottom right-hand corner [i.e., southwest side of the nave]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130905005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the stoup is located just outside this photograph, at the bottom right-hand corner [i.e., southwest side of the nave]
design element - motifs - flat moulding
Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: two rows of them, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 September 2013)
view of stoup - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 September 2013)
view of stoup - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Alvars Catlos, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2013 by Brian Alvars Catlos for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 September 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18644SIN
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: animal stoup / fish stoup
Church / Chapel Name: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: San Giovanni di Sinis, Cabras OR, Italy
Site Location: Oristano, Sardegna, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located near Cabras, in its municipality, 20 km from Oristano, 90 km NW of Cagliari
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Oristano
Additional Comments: animal stoup / fish stoup
Font Notes:
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Holy-water stoup located inside the church, in the southwest corner of the nave; it consists of a rather shallow round basin decorated with a row of scalloped pattern all around, and a thin rope moulding below, and a stylised ribbed pattern topped with round arch-heads all around the underbowl; the inner well of the basin contains a fish carved on the bottom; it is raised on a slender shaft decorated with flat mouldings at top and bottom, and two rows of pellet or nead mortif around the middle; on a small rectangular lower base or plinth.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Brian Alvars Catlos for his photographs of this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 32S 4415258 451758
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 39.886014, 8.435778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 39° 53′ 9.65″ N, 8° 26′ 8.8″ E