Colmar
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Scene Description: notice the division in the inside basin
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Image Source: digital photograph 29 September 2019 by Gzen92 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collégiale_Saint-Martin_-_fonts_baptismaux_(Colmar)_(2).jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]
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Scene Description: the modern font in this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gzen92, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 29 September 2019 by Gzen92 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collégiale_Saint-Martin_-_fonts_baptismaux_(Colmar)_(1).jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Colmar - 29072016"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefano Merli, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 July 2016 by Stefano Merli [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colmar_-_29072016_(28916018293).jpg] [accessed 5 February 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Colmar - 29072016"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefano Merli, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 July 2016 by Stefano Merli [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colmar_-_29072016_(29429149552).jpg] [accessed 5 February 2023]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Bilder aus dem Unterlindenmuseum Taufbecken"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jörgens.mi, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 May 2016 by Jörgens.mi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_(Unterlindenmuseum_Colmar)_jm01327.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2023]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefano Merli, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 July 2016 by Stefano Merli [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colmar_-_29072016_(28916018293).jpg] [accessed 5 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
Scene Description: Source caption: "Colmar / Alsace"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Barker Hemings, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2020 by Paul Barker Hemings [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PBH_August_2020_Colmar_18.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Westportal des Martinsmünsters, Colmar, Frankreich"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palauenc05, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2015 by Palauenc05 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colmar_saint_martin_portail.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Martin church in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Krzysztof Golik, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 8 October 2018 by Krzysztof Golik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Martin_church_in_Colmar_(1).jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Alsace, Haut-Rhin, Ancienne collégiale Saint-Martin (XIIIe-XIVe-XVe) de Colmar"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2015 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colmar_StMartin_52.JPG] [accessed 6 February 2023]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gzen92, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 29 September 2019 by Gzen92 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collégiale_Saint-Martin_-_fégiale_Saint-Martin_-_porte-cierge_(Colmar).jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]
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design element - motifs - leaf - acanthus or grapevine?
Scene Description: a row of
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefano Merli, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 July 2016 by Stefano Merli [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colmar_-_29072016_(28916018293).jpg] [accessed 5 February 2023]
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information
![entry in the museum catalogue [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: entry in the museum catalogue [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of a museum catalogue [source not available] supplied by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24587COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1560
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Museum: Musée Unterlinden, Pl. des Unterlinden, 68000 Colmar, France, Catalogue entry No. 144
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Martin [aka Collégiale Saint-Martin / Cathédrale Saint-Martin]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Previous Font Location(s): Eglise Saint-Martin, Colmar
Church Notes: archaeological evidence of a church ca. 1000; present building 1234-1365; tower added 1572; -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00085368]: "13e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 15e siècle ; 16e siècle"
Church Address: 18 Pl. de la Cathédrale, 68000 Colmar, France
Site Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located between the D214 (W) and the D201 (E), W of the D418 [aka Av. d'Alsace], 35-40 km N of Mulhouse, about 50 km SSW of Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Additional Comments: damaged font / disused font (in a museum) [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font (the medieval one from the 11-12thC church here?
Font Notes:
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Of the two baptismal fonts in a catalogue of the Musée Unterlinden of Colmar, one, listed as No. 144, is identified as being originally from the church of Saint-Martin, in Colmar; it is described as being dated to 1560, its decoration badly damaged. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a large motif or symbol on each side, all very eroded, but some of them still discernible as shields charged with coats of arms; below the waist of the hourglass-shaped font it has preserved a row of leaves (acanthus or grapevine?); the rest of the base is badly eroded. Given the pattern of the erosion and the colour of the material it is probably a local sandstone. No cover present. The present font in this church is modern [cf. ImagesArea]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 377724 5326187
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.077222, 7.358333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 4′ 38″ N, 7° 21′ 30″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal