Antique/Vintage French Grape Hod or ‘Hotte’

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Antique/Vintage French Grape Hod or ‘Hotte’Antique Vintage French Grape Pickers' Hod from Avignon hand painted with Chateau Neuf Du Pape name and crest. Our Grape Hods or Hotte as they are called in France, were originally used as an integral part of the Grape Harvest at a Vineyard. The galvanised metal Hods were worn on your back to collect bunches of grapes. Today, generally grapes are picked mechanically, and around 20 years ago the use of Hods almost completely ended. We source these in

Framed Size approx

patination and a perfect smattering of lichen

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Maxiumum sizes of each listed

Born 23 September 63 BC – Died 19 August AD 14

The interior holds a number of pigeon holes

with its primitive charm

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commissioning them to be replaced in order to display the statue in Château de Vaux-Le-Vicomte

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