An unusual Dutch brass tobacco box commenting on the consequences of power-sharing in a marriage: with a monkey orchestrating chaos, the inscription reads (roughly):
”Where the woman (wife) rules and wants to be guardian over the house..there things are already wrong..there is no bigger cross."
Signed under the monkey, “A.V. Houte."
Both sides are identical.
Netherlands, c. 1700.
3 3/4” diam.
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