1 font : relief-molded white stoneware ; height 8 cm, diameter 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.