2 circular black lacquered wooden boxes with lids and tondos. 19th c 1. Ø 10,2 cm, H. 2,2 cm - 2. Ø 12 cm, H. 4 cm (some min. scratches on paintings, sl. cracking on inside painting of n. 1, few minor bumps to edges of n. 2, especially at base). 1. candy box, lid with a curiously ambiguous double scene: on the outside, a smiling chaplain seated at a table holding a chalice and a rosary (or string of pearls?) placed on the table; on the inside, the same chaplain seated in front of a young woman with a generous (for that time) neckline, bowing to him and holding the above-mentioned "rosary" in her left hand. - 2 Tobacco box, lid ornated with an Ottoman seen from behind holding a hookah pipe.

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