Tisch, Salouf/Graubünden

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About the artwork

Swiss pine wood table from Salouf/Grison. This table exposes a lot of traces of use: burning marks, chopping notches and remains of milk. The latter tells the main use of this table back in the days which was for manufacturing cheese as well as the salting process of which.

The archeological institute of Grisons confirms that this is the oldest, dated piece of furniture of canton Grison.

Material

table surface: pine wood

feet: larch wood

Dating

1383