Kalmar no. 3
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23473KAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Date: ca. 1240?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten [Reutersvärd, Borg]
Cognate Fonts: other such in the group
Museum: Kalmar läns Museum, Inv. Nr.: S49
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Notes: [original church unknown]
Church Address: [original church unknown]
Site Location: Småland, Kalmar län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: [original church unknown]
Historical Region: Norra Möre härad, Kalmar kn
Font Notes:
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Listed in Reutersvärd (1967) as a fragment of a Paradise font. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg as the Gotland limestone fragment of a font made ca. 1240; Borg (ibid.) mentions Reutersvärd. [original church unknown]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: fragment
REFERENCES
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002, p. 272-273
- Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967, p. 75