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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 1618604, member: 56&quot;]Depends on whether or not the scene is religious.&nbsp; It involves bare breasts, so some will always see it as erotic.&nbsp; I&#039;m confident that notion was not lost on the painter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Box images could be downright pornographic.&nbsp; There&#039;s a story of a man who had a snuff box, the lid set with an agate.&nbsp; When held close to a flame, the color of the agate would fade away to reveal a very explicit scene.&nbsp; The trick was a very thin slice of agate over the painted scene with a layer of wax sandwiched between - opaque when cold, transparent when warm.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also a story of the Chinese producing fake silver boxes for export in the 18th and 19th C.&nbsp; The material they were using as a silver substitute was platinum, considered worthless at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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