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Primitive Carved Wafer Stamps
Ref: 5767
Amongst the traditional wood carving of Transylvania made by the shepherds and so called ‘padureni’ or woodlanders in the remote villages much has a distinctly ancient look, distaffs, for example, and also as here wafer stamps, typically jagged, with primitive cruciform, pyramidal & column-like forms, another example by the way of the indigenous folk art that would later influence the modern sculptor, Brancusi. These pieces are, as you can see from the base ‘stamps’, and with runic looking script and at Easter time they decorated communion wafers in the Romanian Church. They were made in wood, and sometimes though rarely painted, as one example here, & some were even made in pale cream or white stone.
Transylvania 19th cent
H: 16cm (6.3in)
W: 4cm (1.6in)
D: 3cm (1.2in)
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