Rare Antique Dutch Brass and Copper Tobacco Box with Sliding Panel. 
ANNO 1722

Rectangular shape, with sliding panel on the bottom, incised with love scenes within foliate borders. Featuring, at the hinged top, a panel with a cut-out and engraved decoration of a pair of lovers with floral vines above and below them. The interior features an erotic scene - cut out and engraved - depicting a man and his lover standing on a tiled floor beneath a canopy. Beneath the sliding panel on the underside of the box is the Roman goddess Fortuna with the horn of plenty / abundance (corncopia) from which she pours out prosperity and wealth upon humanity. In the horn the date 1722.
Below is the personification of love: Cartias, holding a burning heart, with a child clinging to her leg, standing behind two large fish that spout water into a basin, above a man defecating. The entire scene is surrounded by engraved tendrils. On the inside of the hinged lid is a cut-out, engraved panel depicting various figures in an erotic scene.

The Netherlands
Dated 1722

Length: 13 cm. (5,1 inches.)
Width:  5,5 cm. (2,2 inches.)
Height: 3,5 cm. (1,4 inches.)