Four crouching bronze figures — representing the rivers of Paradise — strain beneath an extraordinary 13th-century bronze baptismal font in Hildesheim Cathedral, one of the most celebrated pieces of Romanesque ecclesiastical metalwork in Northern Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage treasure. The hexagonal vessel above them is encrusted with densely modeled relief scenes: the baptism of Christ, Old Testament narratives, and swarming angelic figures crowd every surface of the cover's conical spire. This gravure postcard, published by Hildesia-Verlag (E.B.H.) of Hildesheim as card no. 42, presents the font in sharp detail against the cathedral's stone floor — a document of pre-WWII Hildesheim before Allied bombing in March 1945 devastated the Dom. The baptismal font survived; the cathedral required full reconstruction.