Kopenick No. 1 / Copanic / Copenick / Cöpenick / Koepenick / Kopanica / Köpenick-Berlin
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angel - cherub - head - 8
Scene Description: now much damaged
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design element - motifs - foliage
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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inscription - detail
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angela M. Arnold, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2013 by Angela M. Arnold [commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stadtkirche_St._Laurentius_(Berlin-Köpenick)?uselang=de][accessed 8 November 2013
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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view of font in context
Scene Description: as displayed in the Märkisches Museum
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18760BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Märkisches Museum [originally Märkisches Provinzial-Museum] (Am Köllnischen Park 5, 10179 Berlin)
Church/Chapel: [originally from the old St-Laurentius Kirche, demolished in 1836-1837]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Laurenzstraße / Kirchstr. 4, 12555 Berlin, Köpenick
Country Name: Germany
Location: Berlin, Berlin
Directions to Site: Located in SE Berlin, of which it was a borough from 1920 until 2001; now part of the Treptow-Köpenick borough
Font Location in Church: [in a museum
Date: ca. 1590?
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: original mid-13thC demolished in 1836-1837; new church built in 1838-1841
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on an octagonal rounded stem and an octagonal graded lower base; the upper rim of the basin has a pronounced flat moulding with a wide shallow scotia below, both spaces bearing an inscription from Matthew's Gospel [19:14?]; each of the rounded sides of the underbowl has a foliated background with a cherub's head in it; the whole basin is painted; the rounded octagonal stem beras an incised inscription with the date of the font: "ANNO-159[?]"; the moulded octagonal lower base splays out. There is no obvious evidence in the upper rim of cover hardware, ao it may have had a cover that was simply placed on it, without anchoring hardware.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.446606, 13.575649
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26' 47.78" N, 13° 34' 32.33" E
UTM: 33U 403196 5811667
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German, Latin and numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]