Does this cabbage turn you on? (ctd.)
November 19 2012
Picture: Christie's
Following our naughty cabbage story (below), a reader writes:
Couldn't agree more on being rather suspect of reading overly sexual meanings in pictures such as the Dou you posted this week. However, I think from time to time my fellow countrymen painters did like to include a dubious prop or two, such as Abraham van den Tempel in this picture sold at Christie's Amsterdam this week [above]. The calabash in question could hardly be over-interpreted, in my view...
Phwoar.
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