{"product_id":"26526-devotional-prayer-cards-handpainted-devotional-prayer-card-circular-wreath-with-text-from-ephesians-ca-1820","title":"[Devotional Prayer Cards] Handpainted Devotional Prayer Card - Circular Wreath with Text from Ephesians, ca. 1820","description":"\u003cp\u003eHand-painted devotional prayer card, French or Belgian, ca. 1820, depicting a circular wreath of roses, tulips and wild flowers enclosing a French text from Ephesians 5: \"Femme soiez soumise à votre mary comme au Seigneur, parce que le mary est le chef de la feme come Iesus Christ est chef de l'Eglise\" (\u003cspan style=\"background-color: yellow;\"\u003eWives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife as Jesus Christ is the head of the Church\u003c\/span\u003e). Hand-drawn and hand-colored in ink, pencil, gouache and watercolor with gilt highlights, mainly on parchment. Number 9 of the group of hand-painted devotional cards from the same collection. \u003cspan style=\"background-color: yellow;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003cspan style=\"background-color: yellow;\"\u003eMeasurement\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: yellow;\"\u003eSome of these early nineteenth-century devotional cards were made as \u003ci\u003ecanivets\u003c\/i\u003e, so called after the small knife used to cut their intricate patterns. Cloistered nuns made them to support their convents and charities (such convent work is also known as \u003ci\u003eKlosterarbeiten\u003c\/i\u003e). Entirely hand-cut and painted, they were the precursors of the machine-made lace-paper holy cards of later generations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal French: \"Femme soiez soumise à votre mary comme au Seigneur, parce que le mary est le chef de la feme come Iesus Christ est chef de l'Eglise.\" Ephes. C. 5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62896359604383,"sku":"26526","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/IMG_1572.jpg?v=1792946888","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/26526-devotional-prayer-cards-handpainted-devotional-prayer-card-circular-wreath-with-text-from-ephesians-ca-1820","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}