Losning / Løsning
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human figure - male - head - moustache
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Kend din landsby [http://kenddinlandsby.dk/losning08/] [accessed 30 January 2016]
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animal - mammal - lion - 3?
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Kend din landsby [http://kenddinlandsby.dk/losning08/] [accessed 30 January 2016]
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design element - motifs - vine
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of font in context
Scene Description: inside the chancel, north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Løsning og Korning Sogne, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Løsning og Korning Sogne
[www.losnkornsogn.dk/page/407/løsning-gamle-kirkes-historie] [accessed 30 January 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the old font is partially visible behind [east] of the chancel arch, left [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160130011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the old font is partially visible behind [east] of the chancel arch, left [north] side
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: is this an up-turned former basin? notice the damage at the rim [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kend din landsby, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Kend din landsby [http://kenddinlandsby.dk/losning08/] [accessed 30 January 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20323LOS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Løsning Kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Church Address: Vestergade 42C, 8723 Løsning, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 75 79 01 48
Site Location: Midtjylland, Jylland, Denmark, Europe
Directions to Site: Located just N and adjacent to Hedensted, in its municipality
Additional Comments: composite font? (is it made of two basins of almost the same shape?)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Drake (2002), who classes it in the larger group of 'East Jutland Lion Fonts', subclass "Fonts with religious subjects' made up by fonts at Essenbæk, Fyr, Gerning, Hvorslev, Løsning, Øster, Velling, Ry, Sall, Smidsdrup, Tamdrup and Vellev. Noted and illustrated in the Kend din landsby [http://kenddinlandsby.dk/losning08/] [accessed 30 January 2016] as a baptismal font of reddish granite decorated with three lions; the baptismal dish is identified as south-German, of 1575. Drake [cf. supra] does not specify what the religious subject on this font is. The font, which is hour-glass shaped, consists of two roughly hemispherical parts, basin and base; the basin is decorated with a profusion of motifs which include one (?) moustached male head, three (?) lions with their long manes, and a vine that interlaces above it all just below the upper rim; the base is an upside-down hemispher with a neatly carved acanthus vine all around the bottom; it looks suspiciously like an upside-down basin of a font, re-used as base for the more showy upper piece; it even has the tell-tale damage that may have been caused by an old cover hardware at the rim.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 48' 14.15" N, 9° 41' 46.58" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (reddish)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 120 fn81, 181