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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: all around; much damaged
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Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2017 by Zde [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowl_of_a_baptismal_font,_1450-1500_AD,_Lapidary_of_NM_Prague,_175844.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]
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view of basin
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bowl of a baptismal font from the former church of St. Jan at Na zábradlí in the Old Town (demolished 1896), 1450-1500 AD, sandstone. Lapidarium of the National Museum in Prague, cat. no. 190./ Mísa křtitelnice z bývalého kostela sv. Jana Na zábradlí v Praze na Starém Městě (zbořen 1896), 1450-1500, pískovec. Lapidárium Národního muzea v Praze, č. kat. 190."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zde, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2017 by Zde [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowl_of_a_baptismal_font,_1450-1500_AD,_Lapidary_of_NM_Prague,_175844.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - apse - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kostel sv. Jana Křitele, stav před 1896, východní apsida" -- the church had been re-purposed in 1789, and was totally demolished in 1896
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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1896 photograph [https://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/mzk/view/uuid:de079a10-d987-11e4-a19f-001018b5eb5c?page=uuid:fd113980-d990-11e4-a19f-001018b5eb5c] [accessed 26 September 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24946PRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Museum and Inventory Number: Lapidárium Národního muzea v Praze
Church/Chapel: Lapidárium Národního muzea v Praze
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for the museum] Výstaviště, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice, Czech Republic
Country Name: Czech Republic
Location: Prague, Prague
Directions to Site: The Museum is located in Holešovice, in the Old Town -- the coordinates for the demolished church are: 50°5′5.98″ N, 14°24′51.03″ E, 50.084995, 14.414175, 33U 458090 5548245
Ecclesiastic Region: [ Arcidiecéze pražská]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1450-1500?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Church Notes: the demolished church, kostel sv. Jana Na zábradlí, was built in the Romanesque style/period in the early-12thC; later modified as Gothic; converted to apartment building in 1789; totally demolished 1896;
Font Notes:
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The octagonal basin of a baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1450-1500, originally from the church of St. Jan at Na zábradlí in the Old Town; the church was demolished in 1896. The fragment is now srored in the Lapidarium of the National Museum in Prague / Lapidárium Národního muzea v Praze. The octagonal basin is decorated with a running vine all around, between two thin mouldings, below the upper rim.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.1055, 14.4311
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 6′ 19.8″ N, 14° 25′ 51.96″ E
UTM: 33U 459318 5550516
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining