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The Furama Hotel Hong Kong, Victoriana Room, Jun 05, 2000

LOT 117

FR (Rochat), Geneva, circa 1815.Very fine and rare musical singing bird box.

C. Later gilt brass double-body rectangular, engine-turned in a basket-work pattern. Original inner gold engine-turned cover. The four-colored gold singing bird cover chased with musical trophies over a matt ground. Singing bird movement: Rectangular plates with turned pillars, fusee with chain, rectangular bellow, the bird with moving wings, tail, beak and turning head, controlled by a stack of 8 cams, gold engraved grill. Pinned drum musical movement with two sets of 6 tuned teeth, fitted on te left border of the to plateSigned with the Rochat FR punch mark on the top plate.Dim. 79 x 54 x 31 mm.