- Interior with Peasant Family
- by Adriaen Ostade
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- 1647
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- No luxuries here. Cooking is done
on an open hearth in a single-room earth-floored cottage. A short
flight of steps leads to a ladder giving access to a boarded
loft. There is little in the way of furniture. A turned three-legged
stool stands by a plain three-legged table. Three legs are better
than four when the floor is uneven. In the background is a woven
rush cradle. Rush was more commonly used for cradles than wood;
it was cheaper and cradles often had to burned if the infant
died of something infectious.
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