Kalmar no. 2

Noted in Reutersvärd (1967) as a fragment of a 'Visbytypen' font made ca. 1240. Noted and illustrated by Martin Olsson in Sveriges Kyrkor (vol. 162: 209 and fig. 178) as the underbowl fragment of a limestone baptismal font located in the old cemetery, where it was used as a base for a metal cross on a tomb; part of the metal from the cross is still visible in what would be the bottom of the underbowl; the fragment is clearly part of a font of the 'paradisfuntartype'. The disappeared church whence this font came from is found in Olsson's Kalmar gamla stads kyrkor (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1974-1976) [http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/handle/raa/7003?show=full] [accessed 6 October 2021]; there Olsson refers to the 1604 inventory where a brass font i="Fonthar af Messing l st."] is noted; Olsson (ibid.) mentions also a fragment (44 x 45 cm] of a Romanesque limestone font found in 1922 in the former churchyard, the font being originally four-sided; Olsson notes that the fragment is at the museum without inventory number, and describes the fragment as having animals on it [lion, unicorn, and palmette-like vegetation, and suggests a date in the 13th century. Olsson also notes the fragment in the museum of the KLM 22431 fragment in the museum. Inventoried and illustrated in Brog (2002) who mentions all of the above sources in his entry and accepts the ca. 1240 date for the fragment. The fragment is noted and illustrated in the Kalmar läns Museum [https://digitaltmuseum.se/011023026491/dopfunt] [accessed 6 October 2021] entry: "Dopfunt. KLM 22431. Dopfunt, del av. Av kalksten, huggen. Botten av cuppan till godronnerad funt. Daterad till 1200-tal. Jfr. KLM 22766. Det finns vissa likheter." and gives the information from Olsson above.