Liege No. 4 / Leodicum / Liège / Luik
Image copyright © MJV Soudant, [2024]
PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Results: 6 records
animal - fabulous animal or monster - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MJV Soudant, [2024]
Image Source: digital photograph in MJV Soudant [https://www.mjvsoudant.be/lot/144780/23122528-tete-dangle-de-fonts-baptismau] [accessed 11 March 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
animal - fabulous animal or monster - head or protome
Scene Description: Ghislain (2009) charitably describes it as a "protomé lion moustachu" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MJV Soudant, [2024]
Image Source: digital photograph in MJV Soudant [https://www.mjvsoudant.be/lot/144780/23122528-tete-dangle-de-fonts-baptismau] [accessed 11 March 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MJV Soudant, [2024]
Image Source: digital photograph in MJV Soudant [https://www.mjvsoudant.be/lot/144780/23122528-tete-dangle-de-fonts-baptismau] [accessed 11 March 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MJV Soudant, [2024]
Image Source: digital photograph in MJV Soudant [https://www.mjvsoudant.be/lot/144780/23122528-tete-dangle-de-fonts-baptismau] [accessed 11 March 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
fragment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MJV Soudant, [2024]
Image Source: digital photograph in MJV Soudant [https://www.mjvsoudant.be/lot/144780/23122528-tete-dangle-de-fonts-baptismau] [accessed 11 March 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - vine - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MJV Soudant, [2024]
Image Source: digital photograph in MJV Soudant [https://www.mjvsoudant.be/lot/144780/23122528-tete-dangle-de-fonts-baptismau] [accessed 11 March 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19811LIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Date: ca. 1150-1160?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Museum: Musée d'art religieux et d'art mosan, B23 (anc. 592)
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Previous Font Location(s): original church unknown
Church Address: Rue Mère-Dieu 11, 4000 Liège, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 4 221 68 40
Site Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N671, across the Meuse river from the Quai Godefroid Kurth
Additional Comments: disused font / fragment of font
Font Notes:
Click to view
Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a fragment of a baptismal font [provenance unknown] of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1155-1160; the fragment is a "protomé lion moustachu", the grotesque head of a bulbous-eyed animal that Ghislain (ibid.) interprets as one of four that would have decorated the lower part of a round basin otherwise decorated with a blind arcade of round arches, and raised on a five-column base, much in the style of the fonts at Jodoigne and Jupille. [NB: this may be the same fragment that was advertised in an auction sale by MJV Soudant [https://www.mjvsoudant.be/lot/144780/23122528-tete-dangle-de-fonts-baptismau] [accessed 11 March 2024] cf. ImagesArea]
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 (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: fragment
Notes on Measurements: [20 x 30 x 10 cm]
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, catalogue entry no. 50, p. 161-162