Saginaw (U.S.A.)

Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

Results: 22 records

Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Expulsion from Paradise - Angel with sword - Tree on Knowledge

Scene Description: left to centre -- notice the serpent at the bottom of the Tree, right side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, Eve and the Serpent

Scene Description: Cain killing Abel on the left side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - labours of Adam and Eve - Eve and child

Scene Description: in the centre, between Adam's labours (left) and Cain murdering Abel (right)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - labours of Adam and Eve - spinning

Scene Description: between the Temptation and Fall (left) and the Expulsion from Paradise (right)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - the story of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:3-17) - the killing of Abel

Scene Description: left side of the basin -- notice the bearded head in the upper-right corner of the scene

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - architectural - arch-head - round - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: one of four -- notice the damaged inverted crenellation in the centre

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: one of four - notice the inverted crenellation in the centre

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: one of four - notice the inverted crenellation in the centre

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: one of four - notice the inverted crenellation in the centre

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - motifs - rope moulding - detail

Scene Description: a view of it below the upper rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: below the rim and the rope moulding; it is interrupted by the four tower-like protrusions

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of base

Scene Description: this was used as base for th font in an earlier arrangement; it is now displayed on its own

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of basin - interior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of basin - interior - drain

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the drawing shows the measurements of the square inner basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Tim Faris, Saginaw Art Mueseum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of basin - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of basin - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph, Saginaw Art Museum

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of font

Scene Description: the font in its earlier arrangement

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Saginaw Art Museum [originally from the Detroit Art Museum?]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in its earlier arrangement

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Saginaw Art Museum [originally from the Detroit Art Museum?]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in its earlier arrangement

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Saginaw Art Museum [originally from the Detroit Art Museum?]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 22295SAG
Museum and Inventory Number: Saginaw Art Museum, 1126 N. Michigan Ave, Saginaw, MI 48602, USA
Church/Chapel: [not in a church] [origin unknown]
Church Location: museum address and coordinates: 1126 N. Michigan Ave, Saginaw, MI 48602, USA -- Tel.: +1 989-754-2491
Country Name: United States
Location: Michigan
Directions to Site: Saginaw is off highway 75, NNW of Flint, NNW of Detroit
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tim Faris, Assiatnt Curator, Saginaw Art Museum, for the photographs and his help in documenting this font
Basin of a baptismal font located now [August 2019] in tghe Saginaw Art Museum, Michigan. The basin is tound, with four demi-towers at 90 degree angles on the sides; the programme, some of which is framed above by a set of arcah-heads, moves in chronological order with the scene on the far right, Fall of Mankind where Eve reaches for the forbidden apple, then the narrative continues with the far left image, where the Archangel banishes the couple from the Garden of Eden, Adam toiling in the soil, Eve nursing her child, then murder scene – Cain and Abel; towards the bottom end of the basin sides is a set of blind round arch-heads, except at the four towers, where there is crenellation-like pattern; the underbowl is round and plain, except where the towers extend towards the centre of the underbowl; no base present. No cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 17T 260010 4811479

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 10 - 12 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 43.2 x 43.2 cm* [square]
Diameter (includes rim): 63.5 - 78.75 cm*
Basin Depth: 45.75 cm*
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Tim Faris (Saginaw Arts Museum)