Berlin No. 9
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Scene Description: as displayed in the Märkisches Museum, Berlin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Scene Description: with an inscription in black lettering
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: now damaged
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2013 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18761BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century
Museum: Märkisches Museum [originally Märkisches Provinzial-Museum] (Am Köllnischen Park 5, 10179 Berlin)
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] Am Köllnischen Park 5, 10179 Berlin, Germany -- Tel.: +49 30 24002162
Site Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre, on the S bank of the Spree river, just E of the Spreekanal
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum) -- original church unknown -- damaged font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font now at the Märkisches Museum of Berlin; it consists of a small, roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a ribbed pattern on the sides and underbowl, below a flat rim moulding that bears a painted inscription; raised on a round baluster-type moulded pedestal base, and a tiny quadrangular two-step plinth. The painted insctiption appears to be a version of Mark 16:16 ["Wer da glaubet und getauft wird, der wird selig werden; wer aber nicht glaubt, der wird verdammt werden" = "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 392423 5819347
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.513611, 13.414722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 49″ N, 13° 24′ 53″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: around the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: Image