Sold for:
$1,880
$1,880
Manivelle Automaton of a Village Dance, with five Schoeneau & Hoffmeister bisque-headed figures, two seated musicians with banjos and three dancers in original polychrome satin costumes trimmed with metal-thread and beads, under golden bower of metal-thread arches, flowers and fruit supported by turned and painted columns, on figured paper-covered base with hand-turned mechanism playing two airs and causing the musicians to turn their heads and strum, and the dancers to twirl in circles, wd. 16 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-11-03
