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The Egg Dance
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At right, in this brothel, a young man does an egg dance to the music of a bagpiper. While dancing, he had to roll an egg within a chalk circle – without it breaking – and to cover it with a wooden bowl. This ‘pointless’ amusement, along with the dissolute behaviour of the other figures, served as a moral warning against debauchery.
Title: The Egg Dance
Description:
At right, in this brothel, a young man does an egg dance to the music of a bagpiper.
While dancing, he had to roll an egg within a chalk circle – without it breaking – and to cover it with a wooden bowl.
This ‘pointless’ amusement, along with the dissolute behaviour of the other figures, served as a moral warning against debauchery.
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