Gingerbread Mold with Lovers

Description Very few 15th-century molds made for baking have been preserved. The small shape suggests a specialty product, very likely an inexpensive spiced bread, such as gingerbread. Since the baked goods depicted a couple about to have sex, they were probably intended for the revels associated with peasant weddings or for sale at village fairs.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/30/1977	Treatment	other

Exhibitions

• Artful Dining: The Exhibition. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1994.

Provenance Ex coll: Oscar Bondy; Leopold Blumka, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, January 1973, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase, 1973