Leeuwarden No. 2 / Leewarden
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915)
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Houten doopvont gevonden in Haskerveenpolder op de Buitengreven [...] zwart-wit foto [...] papier [...] hoogte: 13.9 cm, breedte: 10.2 cm [...] PTA492-002"
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Image Source: undated B&W photograph [1850-1939?] by Th.M. Staas, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Collectie Het Koninklijk Fries Genootschap [ref. PTA492-002]
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Image Source: undate photograph taken by W. Kramer, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Leeuwarden_-_20133102_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20234LEE
Museum and Inventory Number: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Church Location: Fries Museum address: Wilhelminaplein 92, 8911 BS Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Tel.: +31 58 255 5500
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Friesland
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, and to Ilse Stap, for their help in documenting this font
Noted and illustrated in Ligtenberg (1915) as a baptismal font located at the Leeuwarden museum at the time; made fom a single piece of oak, it was unearthed in Harteveenschen in 1883; it consists of a thin tall basin with four legs and a circular lower base; measurements are included [NB: a report entitled 'Verslag van den Conservator van het Friesch Museum over het jaar 1915' [http://images.tresoar.nl/wumkes/periodieken/dvf/dvf-0367-1916-24.pdf] [accessed 2 February 2016] mentions the font and Ligtenberg's entry in his Romaansche Dopvonten..., but corrects Ligtenberg's "Harteveenschen" to "Haskerveenster". The Fries Museum, Leeuwarden confirms [e-mail of 2 February 2016 to BSI] the entry for this font in their Collectie Het Koninklijk Fries Genootschap with ref. no. B00428C. [NB: wooden fonts of somewhat related characteristics are listed in this Index for Efenechtyd (Wales), Leeuwarden No. 2 (Netherlands) and Uvdal (Norway)] [NB: cf. Index entry for Leeuwarden No. 3 for another wooden font in that museum].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
wood, oak
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: round (mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 33 cm**
Basin Depth: 40 cm* / 42 cm**
Basin Total Height: 54 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm* / 87 cm**
Square Base Dimensions: 43 cm* [diameter of base]
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 160) / ** Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
REFERENCES
Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; r["References"]
