Double-sided gingerbread mould. Rectangular shape, height 21.4 cm, width 24 cm, depth 3.7 cm. On one side: image of a man in 18th-century attire tricorn hat, justokor, culottes, long boots sitting on a goat, with a carved inscription at the bottom: EIN SCHÖNER BOCK EIN GUTER / PFERD IST EINER GN ... DIE ZIGE WERT; complemented by a plant and floral ornament at the bottom. Reverse: Adam and Eve in Paradise, dressed in leaf loincloths, with the Tree of Knowledge and a coiled serpent; above them a bearded man holding an orb probably God against a heavenly vault showing sun, moon and stars; animals around Adam and Eve include a cat, deer, bird, cow, and squirrel; composition surrounded by a round decorative frame with a plant twig. Materials and function: gingerbread mould; folk-style decorations, plant and floral motifs, pomegranates, snake sin, original sin iconography, religious motifs, riders, animals, historical costumes. Date: 18th–19th century. Place: Silesia Province 1742–1918., A ...
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Double-sided gingerbread mould. Rectangular shape, height 21.4 cm, width 24 cm, depth 3.7 cm. On one side: image of a man in 18th-century attire tricorn hat, justokor, culottes, long boots sitting on a goat, with a carved inscription at the bottom: EIN SCHÖNER BOCK EIN GUTER / PFERD IST EINER GN ... DIE ZIGE WERT; complemented by a plant and floral ornament at the bottom. Reverse: Adam and Eve in Paradise, dressed in leaf loincloths, with the Tree of Knowledge and a coiled serpent; above them a bearded man holding an orb probably God against a heavenly vault showing sun, moon and stars; animals around Adam and Eve include a cat, deer, bird, cow, and squirrel; composition surrounded by a round decorative frame with a plant twig. Materials and function: gingerbread mould; folk-style decorations, plant and floral motifs, pomegranates, snake sin, original sin iconography, religious motifs, riders, animals, historical costumes. Date: 18th–19th century. Place: Silesia Province 1742–1918., A long narrow rectangular wooden plank is shown upright against a plain background, with a rounded top edge that appears worn and pitted and a flatter bottom edge; the plank surface has a weathered texture with small holes and indentations and areas of roughness, and its color ranges from dark brown to lighter brown tones with subtle variations and some darker spots, while the background is a smooth pale gray.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A14_261

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

77.2Mo (1.0Mo) / 38.1cm x 50.8cm / 4500 x 6000 (300dpi)

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