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New York, Grand Havana Room, Dec 06, 2000

LOT 186

German, circa 1950 in the style of 1860s.Fine, gilt silver singing bird box

C. rectangular with canted corners, fully decorated with bas-relief decoration, front and back panels with a nude boy playing a pipe flanked by musical instruments among floral decoration, side panels with two courting birds flanked by flower baskets, the top cover with two boys playing pipes, courting birds, floral bas-relief, the bird cover with two cupids, one with a book, other with a haro symbolizing the poetry and music. M. singing bird movement: going barrel, rectangular reservoir and belows, the bird with moving wings and beak, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel wheel, gilt brass grill engraved with foliage.Dim. 107 x 79 x 60 mm.