Liege No. 3 / Leodicum / Liège / Luik

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

human figure - head

Scene Description: two have survived out of the original four [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 19810LIE
Museum and Inventory Number: Trésor de la cathédrale de Liège
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1165-1170?
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the fragment of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1165-1170; the fragment constitutes part of a basin of round shape with heads at 90-degree angles, of which two have survived, though not entirely; between the heads are a number of irregular round arch-heads; the font was originally mounted on a five-column support base. Ghislain (ibid.) reports that the piece was originally found in the Tongres region, and acquired by Jacques Baijot, later donated to the Trésor de la cathédrale de Liège in 2000; detail similarities with fonts at Bastogne, Neerlanden, Opprebais and Wauthier-Braine are suggested.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Basin Total Height: 41 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 64 cm* [length of the surviving side]
Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009: 159) [NB: measurements taken from the surviving fragment]