Kalmar no. 4

INFORMATION

FontID: 23474KAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Museum and Inventory Number: Kalmar läns Museum
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Church Location: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Sweden
Location: Småland, Kalmar län
Directions to Site: [original church unknown]
Historical Region: Norra Möre härad, Kalmar kn
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1240?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Church Notes: [original church unknown]
Font Notes:
Listed in Reutersvärd (1967) as a fragment of a Paradise font. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002) as the Gotland limestone fragment of a font made ca. 1240; Borg (ibid.) mentions Reutersvärd. [original church unknown] [original church unknown]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: [fragment]
Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Borg (2002) [NB: height of the fragment 16 cm*]

REFERENCES

Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002
Reutersvärd, Oscar, Atlas till Sveriges odlingshistoria Tilläggshäfte, [Stockholm?]: CWK Gleerup, 1967