Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche An Interpretation of the Language

An Interpretation of the Language and Sentiment of Flowers

Two oak leaves

With jointed corners

with a flower and leaves

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche An Interpretation of the LanguageMy first photo here is a composite showing two views of this carved stamp, a butter stamp I believe: target like concentric circles on one end, a cross hatched square on the other, and both sides tapering to the middle like an hourglass. I rarely buy a butter stamp or mold, including for having little expertise about them, but this feels completely transcendent to me, and also like a very modernist feeling carved object, which I'd be as inclined to