Tools
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.