102,000 HKD
Oiseau Chanteur Attributed to Griesbaum, Germany. Made circa 1950. Fine, gilt-metal and painted-on-enamel, singing bird box. Two-body, rectangular with engraved rounded corners, side panels with painted-on-enamel rural riverside scenes, set within ivory-colored champlevé enamel borders, bird cover painted with gentleman offering a gift to a lady, the scene resumes on the top panel with a riverbank with sheep and a dog. Rectangular brass, going barrel and rectangular bellows, the revolving bird with moving wings and beak, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel wheel, gilt brass grill pierced and engraved with foliage. Case stamped with trademark "EB". Dim. 105 x 67 x 49 mm. Notes Similar singing bird boxes by Griesbaum are illustrated in “Flights of Fancy, Mechanical Singing Birds”, Sharon & Christian Bailly, Antiquorum Editions, 2001, p. 357.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
