Sold for:
$3,995
$3,995
Singing Bird Clock Automaton by Bontems, the two-train movement by Japy Freres , No. 2380, with Roman enamel dial (repaired) and countwheel strike on bell, in papier-mache rocky landscape with glass-twist waterfall, flowers and tree with three stationary birds perching in the branches, and two moving birds flitting from branch-to-branch and drinking from the stream, on ebonized base containing pull-string two-air cylinder movement, No. 105, and going-barrel automaton movement driving pulleys, bellows for birdsong, and five wood cams, ht. 24 in., under glass dome.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-11-03
