Only Online Auction
Hong Kong, Mar 03, 2021
LOT 122
Attributable to Karl Griesbaum
Singing-bird box; silver, gilded silver and enamel
HKD 21,600 - 30,200
CHF 2,500 - 3,500 / EUR 2,400 - 3,300 / USD 2,800 - 3,900
Sold: HKD 27,500
Silver (sterling 0.935) and enamel, key-winding, horizontal-shaped, singing-bird box.
Oval-shaped cover painted on enamel on silver showing three characters in the style of Antiquity.
Movement rectangular (~ 95 x 60 mm.), brass, going barrel, bellows and cams; the revolving bird with moving wings, beak and tail, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel wheel.
Movement rectangular (~ 95 x 60 mm.), brass, going barrel, bellows and cams; the revolving bird with moving wings, beak and tail, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel wheel.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: A |
Good |
Case: 3-8 |
Good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 3 * |
Brand Karl Griesbaum, Triberg (Black Forest)
Model attributable to Karl Griesbaum
Year circa 1920-1930
Movement No. unnumbered
Case No. unnumbered (by “R”)
Material gilded silver and enamel
Length 74 mm.
Caliber rectangular (~ 95 x 60 mm.)
Height 55 mm.
Width 112 mm.
Accessories silver winding-key in the shape of a bird
Notes
Griesbaum, Karl (1872-1941)
The firm Griesbaum was founded in 1905 in Germany, in the Black Forest, in Triberg (Baden-Wurttemberg), by Karl Griesbaum (1872-1941). He is the son of Mathias Griesbaum, a clockmaker. He began working as a micro-mechanic in the basement of his home. He has five children who will work with him: Mathias (1902-1974), Amalia, Helena, Caroline and Karl Joseph (b.1916). Mathias studied clockmaking in Fürtwangen, pursued commercial studies in Karlsruhe, as well as in Switzerland. The most typical items of the Griesbaum House are probably their snuff-boxes with a singing bird, particularly those made in a style reminiscent of the traditional German silversmiths of earlier centuries, but also their boxes with two singing birds and those serving as boxes for cigarettes.