Klein-Mutz / Mostitz / Mostiz / Wendisch Mustiz

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B01: view of basin - side 1

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B02: view of basin - side 2

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B03: view of basin - side 3

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B04: view of basin - side 4

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B05: view of basin - side 5

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B06: view of basin - side 6

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B07: view of basin - side 7

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B08: view of basin - side 8

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B09: view of basin - side 9

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B10: view of basin - side 10

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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B11: view of basin - side 11

Scene Description: one of eleven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the eleven columns of medallion motifs on the basin

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LB01: unidentified

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LB01: view of base - side 1

Scene Description: one of seven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the seven medallion motifs on the lower base ring

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LB02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - unidentified

Scene Description: no discernible symbol found to identify the haloed figure seated at a writing desk

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LB02: view of base - side 2

Scene Description: one of seven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the seven medallion motifs on the lower base ring

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LB03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

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LB03: view of base - side 3

Scene Description: one of seven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the seven medallion motifs on the lower base ring

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LB04: Apostle or saint - Evangelist - unidentified

Scene Description: no discernible symbol found to identify the haloed figure seated at a writing desk

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LB04: view of base - side 4

Scene Description: one of seven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the seven medallion motifs on the lower base ring

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LB05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

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LB05: view of base - side 5

Scene Description: one of seven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the seven medallion motifs on the lower base ring

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LB06: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

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LB06: view of base - side 6

Scene Description: one of seven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the seven medallion motifs on the lower base ring

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LB07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

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LB07: view of base - side 7

Scene Description: one of seven 'sides', i.e., the portion that corresponds to one of the seven medallion motifs on the lower base ring

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists? - unidentified

Scene Description: on side 1 of the basin, middle row

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Human figure - female - naked - armless - 4

Scene Description: standing, frontal; set at 90-degrees of each other; resting on the lower base ring

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger - Joseph seated in a chair - Mary in bed

Scene Description: side 2, upper row

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger - Joseph seated in a chair - Mary in bed

Scene Description: side 2, middle row

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: side 3, upper row; on this 'side' the three medallions are representations of the Crucifixion

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animal - mammal - lion - rampant

Scene Description: side 8, middle row

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a circle

Scene Description: inscribed in a beaded circle; side 6, upper row

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a square

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle

Scene Description: side 9, upper row

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 8

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information

Scene Description: twelve of the medallions containing scenes, with some annotations: Evangelists, Nativity, Crucifixion, etc.

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information

Scene Description: twelve additional items identified: three of the Evangelist medallions, three floral motifs, two rampant lions and the ecclesiastical seal

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symbol - seal - ecclesiastical - vesica-shaped

Scene Description: side 11, bottom row -- it has lettering around it [cf. FontNotes]

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symbol - seal - ecclesiastical - vesica-shaped

Scene Description: side 11, bottom row -- it has lettering around it [cf. FontNotes]

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2013 by Doris Antony [accessed 13 October 2014]

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view of font

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view of font

Scene Description: the font and details thereof

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view of font - upper view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19466MUT
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche Klein-Mutz
Church Location: Alter Anger, 16792 Zehdenick OT, Klein-Mutz, Germany -- Tel.: +49(0)3307 2494
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberhavel, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Klein-Mutz is a village in the municipality of Zehdenick, and 3 km ESE of it; 25 km SE of Fürstenberg/Havel, 60 km N of Berlin
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Brandenburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christian Volkmann, organist at Klein-Mutz, for his photographs of, and information on, this font
Church Notes: church originally 13thC (ca. 1288), given by deed by Otto IV to the Cistercian nunnery at Zehdenick; destroyed by fire 1754; re-built 1755 [source: www.klein-mutz-dorfverein.de/Galerie/galerie.htm [accessed 13 October 2014]
Noted and illustrated in Inventar der Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler in der Provinz Brandenburg (1885, Bd.II) where it is described as a work of crude execution, which adds to the appearence of age ["Sehr roh in der Ausfuhrung deshalb altertümlich erscheinend"]. Some of the information below was also found in notes on the font kept in the church archive [undated and without statement of authorship; produced during the GDR]. The font consists of a bell-shaped basin decorated with four pairs of thin parallel mouldings which frame three bands of tiny [4 cm] medallion-like ornaments identified in the church archive records as representations of the Nativity, Crucifixion, Four Evangelists, rampant lions, floral motifs, etc. Some of the repeated scenes and motifs appear to have been intentionally different, as, for example, the haloed figures seated at writing desks, tentatively identified as the four Evangelists, even though their symbols do not seem to appear next to them; others, like the Crucifixion, appear to be all of the same or very similar design. The medallions on the basin area arranged in three rows, eleven columns (three medalions per column). The basin has two side handles set at 180 degrees below the upper rim; it is raised on four armless female figures set at 90-degree angles, their feet resting of a broad ring also decorated with the medallion-like motifs mentioned above [NB: in the records of the church archive created in the time of the GDR, a hand has written "Vgl. Strängnäs" next to the image of one of the four supporting figures [Strängnäs is a diocese made up of two provinces Närke and [part of] Södermanland in southern Sweden -- the reference appears to be related to the putative identification of this figures with some such in the cathedral church at Strängnäs -- unable to find the referred the source sculpture so far]. The same church archive notes mentioned above give details of a single seal that appears in column eleven [BSI numbering], bottom row: pointed oval seal with frame inscription; inside, a clergyman stands on the right, his right hand raised in benediction? both hands up in prayer? to the left is a small altar with a chalice; the Gothic majuscule lettering inscription is only partially readable: "..... LDI D'SCODERVS * DIN .. (?) (?)"; the seal may possibly be related to the founder of the nunnery at Zehdenick, near Mutz, perhaps responsible for the pastoral care at the time; only a few names of office-holders in Zehdenick are known from the 14th century; Scoderus / Scroder are secondary forms of Sartor (Schneider) = Schroeder, is a name of burgers, Council families frequently found in Brandenburg cities since the 13th century; a priest Heinrich in 1339... Some of these medallion motifs appear to have been gold-plated [perhaps they all were originally].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.0097593, 13.2905733
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 57′ 53.11″ N, 13° 17′ 05.95″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bell-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 66.2 cm*
Basin Total Height: 44 cm*
Height of Base: 42 cm [calculated; the ring is 17 cm**]
Height of Side Columns: 25-26 cm** [each statue]
Font Height (less Plinth): 76-77 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Inventar der Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler in der Provinz Brandenburg (1885, Bd.II) -- **church archive notes

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: in the ecclesiastical seal found on the bottom row of side 11 [BSI numbering]
Inscription Text: ".....LDI(?) D'SCODERVS * DIN..(?)"
Inscription Source: church archive notes [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Inventar der Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler in der Provinz Brandenburg, Potsdam: Klaus-D. Becker, 1885