Saginaw (U.S.A.)
Image copyright © Saginaw Art Museum, 2019
Image and permission received from Tim Faris (20 August 2019)
Results: 22 records
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 - 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 - 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 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)
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 - 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)
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)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 22295SAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Museum: Saginaw Art Museum, 1126 N. Michigan Ave, Saginaw, MI 48602, USA, 1954.3.1
Church / Chapel Name: [not in a church] [origin unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: museum address and coordinates: 1126 N. Michigan Ave, Saginaw, MI 48602, USA -- Tel.: +1 989-754-2491
Site Location: Michigan, United States, North America
Directions to Site: Saginaw is off highway 75, NNW of Flint, NNW of Detroit
Additional Comments: disused font? (in a museum) -- Venitian work? originally from the Detroit Institute of the Arts and was gifted to the Saginaw Art Museum in 1952 by a man named Ralph Booth [source: Tim Faris, Saginaw Arts Museum (e-mail of 21 Aug 2019)]
Font Notes:
Click to view
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tim Faris, Assiatnt Curator, Saginaw Art Museum, for the photographs and his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 17T 260010 4811479
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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)