Antique French Wooden Bread Peel — Provincial Baker’s Paddle, 19th Century art Handwritten period inscriptions to underside

Handwritten period inscriptions to underside

Style empty as a sculptural centrepiece on a console or table

Original iron latch and hardware

age-appropriate wear

you get a faint highlight around the perimeter

Antique French Wooden Bread Peel — Provincial Baker’s Paddle, 19th Century art Handwritten period inscriptions to undersideA simple tool from a time when bread was made at home. This is a French pelle pain a wooden bread peel used to move loaves in and out of a wood fired oven. Pieces like this were common in rural homes and village ovens across France, where families would bake their bread weekly rather than buy it. You can see the life its had. The edges are worn from use, the surface marked by heat, flour, and handling over many years. The worn edges and patina we fell