Patacons

€400.00

A patacon is a pipe clay or plaster disc-shaped object that was used to decorate a festive bread named 'vollaard', 'cougnou' or 'cougnolle' in Flemish and Walloon tradition.
Originally a patacon was a Spanish silver coin, a vollaard then was a much appreciated gift. 
This collection of ten examples has a wide range of subjects and date between 1800 and 1900. 

Largest: 13 cm diam., smallest 3 cm diam.