Grand Curtius Museum

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

all around, in the spaces between the heads
Scene Description: all around, in the spaces between the heads
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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

in the spandrels of the basin arcade -- notice the lead filled hole in the rim, remains of an anchorage for the old cover
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

with the characteristic partition of the hair noted in Ghislain (2009)
Scene Description: with the characteristic partition of the hair noted in Ghislain (2009)
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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 - male - head - 4

at 90-degree angles; individualised; one appears to be wearing a crown or head-band
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles; individualised; one appears to be wearing a crown or head-band
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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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view of basin - upper view

Source caption: "Baptismal font (Mosan, 12th c) and other works of Mosan Art in the collection of Museum Grand Curtius, Liège, Belgium."
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]
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view of font in context

the font in the background; only the basin is original; the stem and the base are part of the museum montage
Scene Description: the font in the background; only the basin is original; the stem and the base are part of the museum montage

INFORMATION

FontID: 19770GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Museum and Inventory Number: 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: [church of provenance not known]
Church Location: museum address: Quai de Maestricht 13, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1150-1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]