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Lot 883

Lot 883

Erotica: a good mid 19th century painted tortoiseshell snuff box with concealed panel. The...

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Lot 883

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Erotica: a good mid 19th century painted tortoiseshell snuff box with concealed panel. The circular push-on cover finely decorated with a miniature of a semi-naked maiden, perhaps Ophelia, depicted half-length with hair band and diaphanous robe drawn to her cleavage, her modesty partly covered by bullrushes but with her right breast exposed, a waterfall distant, the base section having a secret screw-on panel enclosing a bawdy printed scene of a couple in a garden, 3.1", (8cm) diameter

Postage: Auction Default

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Total lot weight: No

A small nick to rim of cover. Underside panel has general wear around rim but overall sound.

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