Tarby / Tärby
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Results: 19 records
B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Longinus
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210319008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger - Joseph with staff sitting in his chair - Mary lying in bed
Scene Description: the position of Joseph suggests he is in his dream -- notice Mary's right arm
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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B03: human figure - male - warrior - with spear in the right hand - with shield in the left hand - dragon?
Scene Description: the warrior, passant to the right, appears to be attacked from behind by a dragon(?) rampant on his back, but he is facing the right, oblivious(?) of the beast behind him
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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B04: Apostle or saint - St. Michael - slaying the dragon
Scene Description: a very dynamic rendering of the legend; Michael thrusts the spear into the dragon's mouth as he steps on the beast, whose tail coils around the pillar on the left -- notice the patterns on the dragon's body and the fantastic acanthus-leaf tail end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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B04: Apostle or saint - St. Michael - slaying the dragon - detail
Scene Description: Michael has wings on his shoulders and wears a helmet of sorts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 7 - columns - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: notice the sequence of scenes on the side: the tail of the dragon is coiled around the left pillar --> the Crucifixion, Longinus and the Manus Dei occupy the centre arch --> the Nativity is partially visible in the left arch
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - braid
Scene Description: notice that on the left side the thread is 2-strand but single strand on the right; was it unfinished?
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: palm-like motifs mostly
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: around the top of the upper surface of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leif Andersson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Leif Andersson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056525/images/56525_50004995] [accessed 19 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus or grapevine?
Scene Description: described in one source [cf. FontNotes] as acanthus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leif Andersson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Leif Andersson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056525/images/56525_50004995] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: very flat, almost concave ribs all around the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leif Andersson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Leif Andersson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056525/images/56525_50004995] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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view of basin - detail
![in the left arch a warrior armed with sword and [probably] shield passant to the right --> iSt. Michael slays the dragon in the right arch](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210319010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: in the left arch a warrior armed with sword and [probably] shield passant to the right --> iSt. Michael slays the dragon in the right arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kemitsv, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2013 by Kemitsv [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tärby_kyrka.JPG] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![Source caption: "Tärby kyrka [...] Kyrkan och klockstapeln från söder. Efter teckning av Ernst Wennergren 1881."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0210319001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tärby kyrka [...] Kyrkan och klockstapeln från söder. Efter teckning av Ernst Wennergren 1881."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [2463-001.tif] of a 2 August 1881 drawing by Ernst Wennerblad, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tärby_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200169538.jpg] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Tärby kyrka. Dopfunt"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1966 B&W photograph by Wilhelm Ängermark in Hallbäck's Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tärby_kyrka_Dopfunt.jpg] [accessed 19 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Statens Historiska Museum, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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view of font and baptismal dish
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leif Andersson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Leif Andersson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056525/images/56525_50004995] [accessed 19 March 2021]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leif Andersson, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Leif Andersson in Kyrkokartan [www.kyrkokartan.se/056525/images/56525_50004995] [accessed 19 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 23220TAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Tärby kyrka
Church Location: Tärby kyrkby , 513 96 Fristad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 33 22 23 00
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Västergötland, Västra Götalands län
Directions to Site: Located at the O1803 and O1801 crossroads, 6-7 km E of road 42 and Fristad,
15 km NE of of Borås and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Skara stift [since 2010]
Historical Region: Ås härad
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Andreas / Andreasgruppen
Church Notes: towerless medieval church; expanded and wooden detached belfry added mid-18thC; much restored mid-20thC
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1966) as a baptismal font made of sandstone by master Andreas in the 12th century; the basin is decorated with the Agnus Dei, a fighting scene between man and beast, St. Michael fighting the dragon, Longinus from the Crucifixion, a Nativity scene, an animal and a mask or face; the base has acanthus foliage on the top and a braid on the side; some damage present; drain hole present. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3] as an Andreasgruppen baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1200; the basin is decorated with an arcade of seven round arches containing scenes (Nativity, Passion, Michael and the dragon, etc.); the round base is decorated with a vine around the top area and a braid on the sides. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with an arcade of seven arches containing scenes, as indicated above; the scene between the Nativity [left] and the one in which Michael slays the dragon [right] portrays a rampant beast on the back of a male warrior armed with sword and shield passant towards the right, with the Michael scene in the next arch; the warrior appears not to notice the beast on his back; the underbowl has flat ribbing all around; the circular base has graded moulding at the neck and a vine [acanthus?] on the upper surface, with a braid on the vertical sides; the braid is partly plain and partly in 2-strand pattern [unfinished?]. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.830222, 13.106139
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 49′ 48.8″ N, 13° 6′ 22.1″ E
UTM: 33V 387535 6411382
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 920606F3]
REFERENCES
Hallbäck, Sven Axel, "Medeltida dopfuntar i Sjuhäradsbygden", Från Borås och de sju häradena 1966, 1966