Haguenau No. 4 / Hagenau

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the surviving fragment of a medieval font as displayed in the Musée Historique de Haguenau in December 2016
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edelseider, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2016 by Edelseider [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haguenau_Musée_historique_décembre_2016_(09).jpg] [accessed 13 August 2017]
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches

Scene Description: the spandrels appear to have had motifs in them originally, but are too eroded now for identification
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edelseider, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 December 2016 by Edelseider [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haguenau_Musée_historique_décembre_2016_(09).jpg] [accessed 13 August 2017]
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scene [unidentified]

Scene Description: probaly in the two left arches and in those at the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edelseider, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 December 2016 by Edelseider [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haguenau_Musée_historique_décembre_2016_(09).jpg] [accessed 13 August 2017]
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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: in some of the arches on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edelseider, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 December 2016 by Edelseider [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haguenau_Musée_historique_décembre_2016_(09).jpg] [accessed 13 August 2017]
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view of building interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Du Moyen-Âge à la guerre de Trente ans (musée historique de Haguenau)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2017 by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Du_Moyen-Âge_à_la_guerre_de_Trente_ans_(musée_historique_de_Haguenau)_(35430044413).jpg] [accessed 13 August 2017]
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view of building exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Alsace, Bas-Rhin, Haguenau, Musée historique (1901-1904), 9 rue du Maréchal Foch"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haguenau_MuséeHist_10.JPG] [accessed 13 August 2017]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 21399HAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Maître Ulrich?
Museum: Musée Historique de Haguenau [Rez-de-chaussée, salle du Moyen Age]
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: 9 rue du Maréchal Foch, 67500 Haguenau, France -- Tel.: +33 3 88 90 29 39
Site Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the D27-D29-D48-D85-N63 confluence, 30 km N of Strasbourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum)
Font Notes:
Fragment of a baptismal of the late-15th century attributed to Maître Ulrich and kept in the museum at Haguenau is noted in 'Cuves baptismales et fonts baptismaux : évolution formelle avant le XVIe siècle' [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/CATALOGUES/fontsbapt/fontsbapt_histav16e/html/fontsbapt_histav16e.html] [accessed 13 August 2017]: "deux fonts baptismaux sont attribués à des auteurs précis : ceux, réalisés en 1470-1471 par Maître Ulrich, tailleur de pierre de la ville de Haguenau, conservés au musée historique d'Haguenau (67) et ceux de la cathédrale de Strasbourg (1453) attribués à J. Dotzinger". Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67002423]: "Grès (rose) : taillé (décor en bas-relief) [...] Bord plat ; fonts posés sur un socle circulaire moderne en bois. Coups du marteau du tailleur de pierre visibles à l'intérieur [...] Description : seize saints et (ou) prophètes en relief, chacun dans une niche gothique [...] Base, couvercle et morceaux du bords manquant ; figures sculptées sur l'extérieur très endommagées et usées [...] 4e quart 14e siècle (?)" The remaining fragment of the basin shows a deeply-carved arcade of pointed arches housing figures; some of the figures appear to be in pairs, suggesting scenes; part of the upper rim and side are broken off, but one side still shows a square-cut notch that would be typical of an anchoring spot for an old cover. Given the damage to the upper end of the basin it is unclear whether the font was originally round or polygonal, though most likely the latter.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his additional information on this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 411265 5407385
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.813109, 7.791323
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 48′ 47.19″ N, 7° 47′ 28.76″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)
Font Shape: cf. Font Notes
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: cf. Font Notes

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]