Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 266

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

Two-body, rectangular with engraved rounded corners, side panels with painted- on-enamel rural chateaux and alpine lakeside scenes set within white and translucent royal blue champlevé enamel borders, bird cover painted with a rustic country scene of a gentleman and two ladies with sheep, 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, gilt grille pierced and engraved with foliage.