Liege No. 4 / Leodicum / Liège / Luik

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - head

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - head or protome

Scene Description: Ghislain (2009) charitably describes it as a "protomé lion moustachu" [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - vine - palmette

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fragment

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fragment

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fragment

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19811LIE
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée d'art religieux et d'art mosan
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
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 de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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]

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