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New York, Park Lane Hotel, Dec 15, 1998

LOT 461

Attributable to Bontemps, Paris, circa 1920. Fine silver gilt and enamel singing bird box.

C. Rectangular, the enamel top panel, painted with a pastoral scene, side panels with pale blue and azure flinque enamel with paillonne and black champleve enamelled decoration, front and back panels decorated en suite, each centred with a riverside landscape, the enamel lid of the bird painted with a young boy feeding birds in a net. M. Gilt brass rectangular with rectangular bellow and fly regulator, the going barrel with two cams driving the movements of the bird, moving wings, beak and pivoting. Dim. 39 x 102 x 64 mm.