Kaysersberg No. 2
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Results: 6 records
animal - mammal - lion - couchant - 4
Scene Description: at the angles of the lower base; if it were not for the tails they could be mistaken for dog puppies
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
design element - motifs - geometric
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
design element - motifs - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
symbol - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 2002 by BSI
view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2014 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaysersberg_SteCroix98.JPG] [accessed 2 December 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19878KAY
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de l'Invention-de-la-Sainte-Croix
Church Patron Saints: The Holy-Cross
Church Location: rue du Général De Gaulle, 68240 Kaysersberg, France -- Tél.: 03 89 78 22 78 (Tourisme)
Country Name: France
Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located 10 kms NW of Colmar, on the N415
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S transept
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this object
Font Notes:
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Holy-water stoup consisting of a tapering polygonal [octagonal?] basin decorated with symbols and geometrical motifs on the sides, piping down the underbowl sides onto the base, which is square at the bottom, with couchant lions at the angles. It is provided with a modern lid and may have been used as baptismal font at some point. Indeed, it appears listed in Palissy [ref.: PM68000159] as a baptismal font: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Composé de deux troncs de cône opposés [...] 13e siècle (?)"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.138915, 7.263489
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 8′ 20.09″ N, 7° 15′ 48.56″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM68000159]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: NB: the object may have been used as font at some point