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Copyright 2015 Hilde Heyvaert.
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Ok, so yeah, I'm coming into this late, but better late than never! :)
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Five Fandom Friday photo-a-day: 27: leaves
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Detail from the Gustave Dore plate in the old book I found. According to the older of the two creation stories in Genesis, God has just done some surgery on Adam!
So Friday will be Female day. Only female characters on Friday. My most daunting day, I'm never really happy with my female characters, I find them the hardest to do.
"Fonts were an important element in churches, holding the blessed water used for the Christian sacrament of baptism. They could be made of stone or lead. Early fonts did not have such elaborate covers. In England during the 13th century fonts were ordered to be kept locked in order to prevent hallowed water being used for black magic and had tight-fitting lids. The octagonal shape of this font-cover derives of course from the shape of the font (unidentified) for which it was made. Various symbolic explanations have been suggested for the octagonal form popular for fonts but it may simply derive from the fact that the shape is easier to draw (and make accurately) than other polygons, and accommodates itself more easily to a circular basin.
This font cover incorporates various carved panels showing Biblical scenes associated with baptism including the angel troubling the water of the Pool of Bethesda (John chap. 5 v. 4) and Christ and the woman of Samaria meeting at the well (John iv. 1-26), while the knop at the top of the cover (a structural necessity) is in the shape of a renaissance style fountain with a stylised water surface, taking up the theme of water inherent in the function of a font. Dome-shaped font cover divided into eight compartments by moulded ribs which radiate from a knop at the apex to the octagonal base. The quatrefoil knop - with holes, probably for the fixing of a chain - has two lion's masks and two cherubs' heads, with a pierced octagonal upper tier, and appears to represent a quatrefoil renaissance fountain, with the 'water' surface represented by irregular cuts in the wood, though Bond p.29 illustrates a drawing after a medieval infant baptism showing a large quatrefoil font.
Construction
Each panel is formed of two planks, glue-joined, the elements probably all cut from a single long plank (about 250cm long). The curve has been achieved by cutting away from a thicker plank (about 6-8cm). The lower rail is tenoned together. Each curved rib (with grooves to receive the panels) is symmetrically moulded with a ogee moulding.
The eight triangular panels contain the following scenes:
1 Female saint representing St Catherine of Siena. She holds a heart in her left hand and holds a crucifix in her right (though without visible rays) in an image that is reminiscent of those of St Francis of Assisi. Like him St Catherine received the pain of the stigmata although not the physical injury.
2 An angel and a woman at an ornate renaissance fountain, representing the angel troubling the water of the Pool of Bethesda (John chap. 5 v.4)
3 Christ and the woman of Samaria, John iv. 1-26
4 Christ meets Nicodemus the Pharisee at night, John iii.1-5ff (No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born from water and spirit. v.5)
5 St Philip Baptising the Eunuch Acts viii, 26-40 (culminates in baptism of the eunuch)
6 Man with distinctive hat, in ‘kilt’ and cloak, with sword, making a shape with his hands. The costume may be representative of a Roman soldier's garb. In Luke 3, 7-14 (a narrative largely concerned with baptism), when tax collectors and soldiers came forward to be baptised we read that "Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?". And he said to them, "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages."
7 Christ asking the Chief Priests and Scribes concerning the Baptism of John Matthew xxi, 25
8 Man in distinctive hat and cloak holding a scroll. He could be representative of God's voice - "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 4, 17) - at the time of Our Lord's baptism.
One charming detail is the rendering of the knop of the cover (a structural necessity) as a quatrefoil fountain with a stylised water surface, taking up the theme of water inherent in the function of a font." V and A website.