Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 300

SILVER & ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX Attributed to Griesbaum, Germany. Made circa 1960. Fine, silver and painted-on-enamel singing bird box.

Two-body, rectangular with engraved rounded corners, side panels with painted-on-enamel rural alpine lakeside scenes set within white and translucent green champlevé enamel borders, bird cover painted with a rustic country scene of a mother and two children with their dog, the scene continues on the top panel. Rectangular brass, going barrel and rectangular bellows, the revolving bird with moving wings and beak, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel wheel, silver grille pierced and engraved with foliage. Case punched with German silver marks.