Leeuwarden No. 3 / Leewarden
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Scene Description: at the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, in 1978
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken December 1978 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_van_Foswerd_-_Leeuwarden_-_20133112_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2016]
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Scene Description: at the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, in 1978
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016
Image Source: B&W photograph taken December 1978 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_van_Foswerd_-_Leeuwarden_-_20133111_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20325LEE
Museum and Inventory Number: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown -- originally from Fodwerd?]
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: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
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; measurements are included; arrived in the museum only a few years before; it is made of wood and consists of a cylindrical basin on a thuncated-cone shaped pedestal base. This font appears to be the one entered in the Fries Museum's Collectie Het Koninklijk Fries Genootschap with the code 27C-121, "Houten cilindervormig doopvont", dated "1150 - 1249". Two photographs of this font in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_van_Foswerd_-_Leeuwarden_-_20133112_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2016], are captioned "doopvont van Foswerd", although the records of the Fries Museum do not appear to included this provenance. There are records of a Benedictine monastery in Foswerd dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Was this font originally from Foswerd? [NB: cf. Index entry for Leeuwarden No. 2 and 4 for other wooden fonts in this museum].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
wood
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 18 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 34 cm* / 35 cm**
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 28 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 61 cm* / 62 cm**
Notes on Measurements: *Ligtenberg (1915: 160) / **Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
