$5,288
Coin-Operated Double Singing Bird Automaton, the birds with articulated heads, beaks and tails, perched in sunken garden surrounded by pressed gilt-metal borders and foliage, in reconstructed glazed case with turned ebonized corner columns with finials, mirror back, beveled glass top and mahogany base with fretwork grille flanked by quarter-veneered panels, the going-barrel movement with bellows for birdsong, coin-slot and coin-drawer, ht. 20 x 15 in. Literature: Christian Bailly, (1987), Automata, the Golden Age , p. 353.

Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-11-03