Hov nr. Mariager [now in the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen]

Listed in Mackeprang (1941) as a baptismal font as part of the Himmerland-Mariagertypen, Mariagergruppen-A, similar to those at Kastbjerg, Skjellerup. Store Arden, Svenstrup and Vester Tørslev. Noted and illustrated as the leader of the Hov family of fonts in Slomann (1967). Baptismal font pf granite original from the old Romanesque church at Hov; the church was demolished and the font moved to the National Museum in Copenhagen. The roughly hemispherical basin is decorated with two pairs of bi-corporal lions that have non-feline heads, one decidedly ovine, the other more bovine and with a ring in its nose; the rendering of the bodies, manes and legs of the lions is very much like the one found on the other fonts of this type; there are two human figures on it, one at each back of the two pairs of lions; one of the figures is definitely male, showing a long curled moustache and beard, and his genitalia with an erect phallus right below the X formed by the crossing lion tails, the ends of which he holds in his hands; the other figure could be female, as it has round bulging breasts, but the lower body, with the exception of the lower leggs, is hidden from view; the bulging chin of this figure gives it the appearance of a beard, but this may be just a trompe l'oeil effect.