Sold for:
$575

French Bisque-Head Automaton Tambourine Player, early 20th century, blue stationary eyes, open mouth, pierced-in ears, head impressed Limoges France, remains of brown human hair wig, undressed cardboard body covering mechanism, head moves side to side as right composition arm shakes tambourine frame (bell and one finger missing), plush covered box, original key for music and movement, ht. of doll 12 in., overall ht. 15 in.


Skinner

Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2001-05-12

Archived auctions similar to French Bisque-Head Automaton Tambourine Player Down arrow


Sold for:
$4,700

Roullet et Decamps Automaton of a Spanish Tambourine-Player, c. 1885, with unmarked pressed bisque Jumeau head stamped E , closed mouth, straight neck, fixed blue Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2007-10-28


Sold for:
$2,489

Assembled Set of Twelve Bloor Derby Monkey Orchestra Figures, England, c. 1830, each polychrome enamel and gilt decorated, including a conductor, ht. 7 in.; together Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2008-10-03


Sold for:
$3,000

Lute Player Automaton. French [?], ca. 1890. Full-body figure seated on a fabric-covered platform strums a lute and nods his head from side to side Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-12-05


Sold for:
$2,233

Scarce American Walking Automaton, possibly by Jerome Secor , the French bisque swivel-head with shoulderplate, closed mouth, outlined lips, fixed blue rayed eyes, arched feathered Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2005-05-03


Sold for:
$8,225

Antique 18kt Gold and Enamel Bracelet, Delarue, Paris, designed as four hinged panels with polychrome enamel depictions of the four ancient Greek spectacles, a bacchante, Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2004-12-14


Sold for:
$475

[Automata] Group of ten publications about automata. Including titles in English and French, among them American Clockwork Toys by Blair Whitton (1981), Antique Automatons (1950; Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2012-05-13