Grand Curtius Museum
Results: 6 records
view of font in context
Scene Description: the font in the background; only the basin is original; the stem and the base are part of the museum montage
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: all around, in the spaces between the heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kleon3, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(2).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
human figure - male - head - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles; individualised; one appears to be wearing a crown or head-band
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kleon3, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(2).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the basin arcade -- notice the lead filled hole in the rim, remains of an anchorage for the old cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kleon3, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(1).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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human figure - head - male - detail
Scene Description: with the characteristic partition of the hair noted in Ghislain (2009)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kleon3, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(1).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font (Mosan, 12th c) and other works of Mosan Art in the collection of Museum Grand Curtius, Liège, Belgium."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kleon3, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2014 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liège,_Grand_Curtius._Art_mosan_du_12e_siècle(1).jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19770GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Date: ca. 1150-1160?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font / affiliation Beauchevain [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Museum: Le Grand Curtius: Musée d'Archéologie, d'Art mosan, d'Armes, du Verre, et des Arts décoratifs, Quai de Maestricht 13, 4000 Liège
Church / Chapel Name: [church of provenance not known]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] Quai de Maestricht 13, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Site Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: The museum is located off the N671, across the Meuse from the Quai Godefroid Kurth, just W of the Pont-Saint-Leonard
Additional Comments: disused font / altered font (only the basin remains; in a museum)
Font Notes:
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Stone basin of a baptismal font of the Mosan type exhibited at Le Grand Curtius museum next to the font inventoried in this Index as Huy No. 1 [cf. Index entry] [NB: although the font appears to be of the "Namurois, filiation de Beauvechain" group (Ghislain, 2009), we were not able to identify it in Ghislain catalogue]. The bains is round with the characteristic protruding heads at 90-degree angles; the four appear to be male, one perhaps with a hair-band; they show the characteristic partion of the hair noted in Ghislain (2009); between the heads runs a blind arcade of round arches supported on columns with capitals and bases with foliage motifs in the spandrels; the upper rim lacks any discernible decoration but has at least one drilled hole with lead filling that must have been an anchorage spot for an iold font cover. The base and lower base obviously lost. Not unlike the basin of the font from Bléhen, also in the Grand Curtius museum. [NB: the source does not have the museum inventory number -- to be completed]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 682691 5613753
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.64696, 5.58418
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 38′ 49.06″ N, 5° 35′ 3.05″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]