Nude Bather Shower Relief Panel

A carved relief of a bather stepping into a shower, framed by leaves and a scripted panel. The scene shows a slender nude female figure in a relaxed contrapposto pose, arms lifted to her hair, standing before an open shower stall with a shower head above and a folding screen behind. Cyrillic script runs across the top — "Душ", the Russian word for shower. A large stylised flower and trailing foliage frame the left edge, and the whole vignette sits inside a soft, cloud-outlined plaque border. As a woodcarving it is a figurative wall plaque, the sort of piece sold for a bathroom door or a themed interior. Note that it contains full nudity, so where it can be displayed or sold will depend on the platform's content rules. Print notes • Deep-relief figure work like this rewards a fine ball-nose finishing pass to model the rounded forms and the drapery of the screen without facets. • Choose a pale, even-grained hardwood (lime/basswood, maple) so the body contours read without grain fighting the shapes. • Orient flat on the bed; the relief is single-sided with only gentle undercuts around the raised border. • Finish with a rubbed oil, then a darker wax pushed into the recesses to lift the lettering, the flower and the figure's outline.