Staircase full of people and animals. In the front left a baby lies in a cot, on the right a greybeard sits with his legs dangling above an open grave. An 'age staircase' begins with the baby, which counts ten steps from cradle to grave, ten stages of life. At each age there is an animal that typifies that phase: the boy of ten carries a bouncy goat, the forty-year-old is noble and wise as a lion, the fifty-year-old smart as a fox, and the eighty-year-old sits on a slow donkey. On the 'young' side of the stairs is a tree full of leaves, with birds and musical instruments. On the 'old' side

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