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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel

B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1956 by I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B0164624]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1956 by I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B0164625]

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the new parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Othée, Awans, Liège, Belgium

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2008 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Othée_-_Eglise_Saint-Pierre_et_Paul.jpg] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the mid-18th century font and cover in use at the parish church

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Serge Pluymers, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M82085]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19786OTH

Museum and Inventory Number: M.A.R.A.M. / Musée d'art religieux et d'art mosan (Liège, Belgium)

Church/Chapel: [originally from Sint-Pieters en Pauluskerk / Eglise Saint-Pierre et Paul]

Church Location: rue Robert, 4340 Othée (Liège), Belgique

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1150-1155?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Furnaux [Ghislain]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) as the basin of a Romanesque baptismal font made of limestone between 1101 and 1200, originally from the Eglise Saints-Pierre et Paul[Othée]; Othée, located in the Musée d'art religieux et d'art mosan, in Liège [cat. Puraye n° 590]. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the surving basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Furneaux, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1150-1155; the round basin is decorated with the four symbols of the Evangelists at 90-degree angles on the basin sides; the basin underbowl shows that the font was designed originally to be supported on five columns, a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes; Ghislain (ibid.) remarks detail similarities with the fonts at Guttecoven, Straelen, Neerhespen, Fairon and Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz; a hole was drilled in one of the sides of the font, which is often an indication of the alternative use as water-trough in abandoned fonts. The baptismal font in use in this church is mid-18th century, a round moulded basin raised on a round baluster-type pedestal base; dome metal cover with ball finial/handle.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 70.5 cm* / 70 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 91 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 32 cm* / 32 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009) / ** KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)

REFERENCES

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009