Snuff box
- Title
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[Snuff box]
- Format
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Realia
- Published
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[19--?]
- Description
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1 snuff box : wood and black laquer ; 3 1/2" d. x 1" h.
- Notes
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Title supplied by cataloger.
ISR 1303.
- Summary
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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
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Art--France--20th century.
Covert novelties.
Men in art.
Women in art.
Nudes in art--Female.
Coitus.