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Bontems Singing Bird Bocage Automaton http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2314/lots/351

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Bontems Singing Bird Bocage Automaton, with two stationary and two mechanical birds (one drinking, one bobbing and flapping wings) with iridescent plumage, in papier-mache landscape with blossom tree, foliage and mirror-stream fed by glass-twist waterfall, on ebonized base containing the going-barrel movements and bellows for birdsong, ht. 23 in., (one stationary bird missing head, otherwise good overall condition).

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Auctioneer:
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Date:
2005-11-03

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