Vlatten No. 2

The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Dionysius_(Vlatten)] [accessed 6 November 2023] reports a late-Gothic baptismal font made of sandstone in it ["spätgotischer Taufstein aus Sandstein"]. Of the two fonts inside the church this one appears to be the one in use; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with ball motifs above a pattern of flat ribs all around the underbowl; the square pedestal base has scroll ribs at the corners; the square lower base has moulded decoration; the general impression is that, while the basin appears late-Gothic, the two blocks of the base are a later replacement. Dome metal cover, polygonal with decorated arrises and know finial. [NB: the whole object does not hold together at all; the basin and base are not a match, and the polygonal font cover sits on a round basin -- we have no information on where the assigned date '1480' is from].