A crowded little boat drifts nowhere, crewed by a friar, a nun and peasants who sing, drink and grab at food, with a leafy tree for a mast. The panel is a fragment of a triptych wing; its lower part, an Allegory of Gluttony, is at Yale. It mocks gluttony and folly, echoing Sebastian Brant's popular satire Das Narrenschiff.
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The friar and nun gape at a pancake dangling on a string between them. Up in the leafy mast an owl peers out, and a jester sits apart, drinking.
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