Maastricht No. 6 / Maestricht (Limburg)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: multiple mouldings on the stem

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 February 2011 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SchipZijbeukZuidKapelDoop01.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a single moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 February 2011 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SchipZijbeukZuidKapelDoop01.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken August 1917, Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_(geel_koper)_-_Maastricht_-_20145865_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: the image shows the font with the modern cover having been 'swung' to the right via the wall-mounted crane; the cover is modern, just over a decade old when this photograph was taken; part of the 'In memoriam' dedication on the cover is visible on its lower rim side

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font (brass, partly 15th c; the lid was added in 1906) in the baptismal chapel in the Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht, the Netherlands."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 February 2011 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SchipZijbeukZuidKapelDoop01.jpg] [accessed 30 October 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20099MAA

Church/Chapel: Sint-Servaasbasiliek [aka Sintervaosbasiliek / Sint-Servaaskerk]

Church Patron Saints: St. Servatius of Tongeren [aka Sarbatius, Servais, Servatius of Maastricht]

Church Location: Keizer Karelplein 3, 6211 TC Maastricht, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 43 321 2082

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Limburg

Directions to Site: Maastricht is north of Liège, in the Limburg province.

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptismal chapel

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: original church or chapel date unknown; stone church by 570 replaced by a pilgrim church in the 7thC; replaced by present-day church, a 11th-12thC building; made Basilica Minor in 1985

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this church in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Maastricht,_Keizer_Karelplein_6_-_Basiliek_St._Servaas] [accessed 30 December 2021] notes and illustrates a "koperen doopvont XV". Metal baptismal font made of metal [bronze? or brass?], consisting of a round basin slightly tapering towards the bottom and a rounded underbowl; plain, except for a moulding at the upper rim; raised on a slender pedestal base, round with multiple mouldings; the lower base has a polygonal [hexagonal?] top but the splaying volume is round with a single moulding. Metal font cover of 1906 (?) has a round domed platform bearing an 'In memoriam' inscription around the lower rim side; above this rises a two-stage canopy of neo-Gothic open-work with flying buttresses, crocketed pinnacles, etc.; a female pelican feeding her young from the blood from her chest serves as finial. A wall-mounted crane allows for the lateral movement of the cover.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, [bronze? / brass?]

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1906

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: yes; wall-mounted side crane

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]