Snuff box

Title

[Snuff box]

Format

Realia

Published

[19--?]

Description

1 snuff box : wood and black laquer ; 3 1/2" d. x 1" h.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger.
ISR 1303.

Summary

Snuff box with a false lining and two concealed erotic scenes. The lid has a decoupaged scene of three women and two men with the caption "Le Baiser a la Capucine." The underside of the false lining depicts a handcolored scene of three nude females and a seated clothed male with the caption "La puissance des femmes." The interior bottom of the snuff box contains a concealed scene of a partially clothed male approaching coitus with a clothed standing female; the caption reads "Le Paresseux."

Kinsey subjects

Art--France--20th century.
Covert novelties.
Men in art.
Women in art.
Nudes in art--Female.
Coitus.