Losning / Løsning

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.