Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 60

GRIESBAUM SINGING BIRD BOX Karl Griesbaum, Germany. Made circa 1950. Fine and attractive, gilt-metal and painted-onenamel singing bird box. Accompanied by a Griesbaum bird-form key.

C. Two-body, rectangular with engraved rounded corners, serpentine side panels with painted-on-enamel rural alpine lakeside scenes, set within engraved borders, bird cover painted with a scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with a caged bird, the scene continues on the top panel. M. 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. DIM. 7.4 x 4.8 x 10.8 cm.