Allegorical Sculpture „Justice”

The female figure stands with slender body proportions, with the right leg extended forward. In her bent right hand, she holds a sword raised vertically. In her lowered left hand, she holds a metal scale pressed horizontally against her hip, with two hemispherical pans hanging from both ends of the movable arm. One pan hangs on a chain by her foot, the other below her hip.

The woman is dressed in a gown with a large neckline, fastened with a diagonal strap on her left shoulder, revealing the right, bare side. The gown is belted and pulled up at the waist, forming a pleated skirt falling to the ground, exposing the right leg above the knee in a slit. The woman’s head is turned to the left, her hair tied back, and her eyes covered with a blindfold tied at the back. Her feet are bare in sandals. The figure is positioned on a circular, convex base and was originally the fifth from the right of the entrance, set against the pilaster of the fence.

The baptismal font was funded by the Council of St. Mary’s Church and made in the Netherlands between 1554–56. It was transported by ship to Gdańsk in 1557. In 1943–44, it was evacuated to the village of Żuławki near Gdańsk. In the post-war years, the sculptures were secured and stored in the National Museum in Warsaw. They returned to St. Mary’s Basilica in 1981.