Antique French Wooden Bread Peel — Provincial Baker’s Paddle, 19th Century art Minor losses and softening to

Minor losses and softening to composition ornament

This more compact ladder likely served in tighter spaces within an institutional setting — perhaps in archives or smaller reading rooms

Original iron latch and hardware

Made from glazed earthenware

Antique French Wooden Bread Peel — Provincial Baker’s Paddle, 19th Century art Minor losses and softening toA 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