Portable font, ca. 1840?
- Title(s):
- Portable font.
- Published/Created:
- England, ca. 1840?
- Physical Description:
- 1 font : relief-molded white stoneware ; height 8 cm, diameter 12 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsParks Jug 69Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14634360
- Classification:
- Three-Dimensional Artifacts
- Notes:
- Portable fonts such as the one here were designed for the baptism of infants too ill to bring to church. Minton was a prominent maker of such fonts, from the early 1840s. The present example lacks a maker's mark.
- Subject Terms:
- Gothic revival (Art)Infant baptism.Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
- Form/Genre:
- Baptismal fonts
Stoneware (pottery)
Ceramic (material)
Molding (forming) - Export:
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