Elblag No. 2 / Elbiągowi / Elbing / Elbinge / Elbingo / Elbingum / Elbląg / Elblągu / Elbyang / Elbyngo / Elvingo / Elwing / Elwinge

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animal - bird - eagle - double headed

Scene Description: with a plant or tree on each side of the panle

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Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1935-1939] photograph [125344] by the Die mittelalterliche Bildhauerkunst im Deutschordensland Preußen, 2. Tafeln (1939) Abb. 395, Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin [https://bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/suche/index.html?ids=125343#!start=1] [accessed 16 April 2023]

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animal - mammal - lion - foliated tail - passant - 2

Scene Description: one in each panel, passant in opposite directions; there appears to be a font cover of sorts on it

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Städtisches Museum Elbing, 2020

Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1935-1939] photograph [125343] by the Die mittelalterliche Bildhauerkunst im Deutschordensland Preußen, 2. Tafeln (1939) Abb. 395, Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin [https://bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/suche/index.html?ids=125343#!start=1] [accessed 16 April 2023]

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animal - quadruped - unidentified - feathered tail - playing a horn - couchant-gardant

Scene Description: the animal has four legs and a large feathered tail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Städtisches Museum Elbing, 2020

Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1935-1939] photograph [125343] by the Die mittelalterliche Bildhauerkunst im Deutschordensland Preußen, 2. Tafeln (1939) Abb. 395, Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin [https://bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/suche/index.html?ids=125345#!start=1] [accessed 16 April 2023]

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design element - motifs - plant or tree

Scene Description: one on each angle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Städtisches Museum Elbing, 2020

Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1935-1939] photograph [125343] by the Die mittelalterliche Bildhauerkunst im Deutschordensland Preußen, 2. Tafeln (1939) Abb. 395, Staatliche Bildstelle, Berlin [https://bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/suche/index.html?ids=125343#!start=1] [accessed 16 April 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24679ELB
Museum and Inventory Number: Städtisches Museum Elbing / Museum der Archäologie und Geschichte von Elbing
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinate for the museum] bulwar Zygmunta Augusta 11, 82-300 Elbląg, Poland -- Tel.: +48 55 232 72 73
Country Name: Poland
Location: Warmińsko-Mazurskie
Font Location in Church: [in a museum?]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Fröjelgruppen?
Cognate Fonts: Other fonts of this group (Fröjel, etc.)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Stone basin of a baptismal font dated in the Städtisches Museum Elbing to the mid-15th century [https://www.bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/cgi-bin/bildarchiv/suche/show_foto.cgi?lang=deutsch&id=125344] [accessed 16 April 2023]. The polygonal basin is made of limestone by the Gotland workshop known as Fröjelgruppen, characteristic for its comic-like renderings of animals and humans. The museum has three photographs of the font, but does not give an original provenance or a present location.

COORDINATES

UTM: 34U 395093 6002136

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

LID INFORMATION

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