Early Spanish Mission Pewter Water Font Late 1700's
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A true museum quality piece of early California and Spanish Mission history! American pewter religious water font, late 18th C., measuring approximately 8 inches high with crucifix finial topped lid cover, complete with the three original holy water containers (used for baptism of local Native American Indian tribes by the Spanish Padres). This is an extremely rare item originally from the 2nd oldest Mission in California., the San Carlos Mission which was founded in 1770. On June 3, 1770, Father Serra founded his Mission San Carlos Borromeo at the site of the present presidio Chapel in Monterey. Only a year later the padre again separated his Indian charges from the Spanish soldiers, moving the mission five miles away to the Carmel Valley, on the other side of the Monterey Peninsula. At that lovely place Father Serra established his personal headquarters. Monterey became an important port and the capital city of the Californias. Father Serra did not live to see the period of greatest prosperity of the California missions, nor the building of the impressive monuments we see along El Camino Real today. Most of the churches, even so, were built only of adobe with thick, plastered walls. Just at Carmel, and three other locations, were t enough skilled artisans present to design and build with stone. The great church was four years
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