Rotterdam No. 1

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human figure - head

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Image Source: digital photograph in the Museum Rotterdam [https://img.museumrotterdam.nl/700/10358_1.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2021]
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design element - motifs - vine - detail

Scene Description: just a lttle trace of the vine to the right of the head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph in the Museum Rotterdam [https://img.museumrotterdam.nl/700/10358_1.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2021]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 23448ROT
Object Type: Baptismal Font2, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / Ardennes-type?
Museum: Rotterdam museum, inv. no.: 10358
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: [Address & coordinates given for the museum] Museumpark 18–20, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Site Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: The museum is located S of the city centre and the Westblaak
Font Notes:
The Museum Rotterdam site [https://museumrotterdam.nl/collectie/item/10358] [accessed 20 September 2021] holds a "Fragment doopvont met kop op aanzet zuil": the fragment includes a head with traces of vine to the side, and has a rusted staple or pin in top, probably a staple of an old cover; likely a fragment of a baptismal font made of Namur (?) black & blue limestone of the Devonian coral type without fossils [="Vermoedelijk een fragment van een doopvont. In het midden een kop op een aanzet van een zuiltje, ernaast een ranken versiering. Lichte holling aan de achterkant, de binnenkant van de doopvont. Bovenop een verroest fragment van een verbindingspen. Kalksteen, waarschijnlijk Namense steen: blauwgrijze tot blauwzwarte koraalkalksteen uit het Devoon zonder fossielen."]. The Museum gives "Maasland?" as the possible origin of the fragment, and dates it 1100 to 1200. [NB: Maasland's medieval font is in Hoeselt [cf. BSI entry]]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 601336 5752523
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.914215, 4.473341
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 54′ 51.17″ N, 4° 28′ 24.03″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Namur?)
Notes on Measurements: Museum info on fragment: "hg 32,0 / br 25,5 / dp 22,0 / 17 kg"