Lot 15

A Rare Late 18th Century French Erotic Treen Snuff Dispenser with complex opening mechanism. The piece carved in the form of a tonsured monk wearing a long hooded robe tied at the waist with rope and hung with rosary beads, his head tilting to raise the phallus, triggering the opening below a stopper to release a dose of snuff, (mechanism A/F), 5” (13 cm) in height.

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Description

A Rare Late 18th Century French Erotic Treen Snuff Dispenser with complex opening mechanism. The piece carved in the form of a tonsured monk wearing a long hooded robe tied at the waist with rope and hung with rosary beads, his head tilting to raise the phallus, triggering the opening below a stopper to release a dose of snuff, (mechanism A/F), 5” (13 cm) in height.