Less common is the ivory carving of Adam and Eve as Lovers (Adam und Eva als Liebespaar) by Zacharias Hegewald, c. 1630. The couple is in bed; no snake to be seen. A modesty sheet can be unpinned to reveal (presumably) their naked genitals.
In the Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany.
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