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BRUGUIER SINGING BIRD BOX C. Bruguier à Genève, No. 517. Made circa 1850. Very fine and rare, silver-gilt and painted on enamel singing bird box. Accompanied by a key. Rectangular with molded corners, florally engraved over engine-turning, top with sky blue enamel painted with fl owers, black enamel borders, bird cover fi nely painted with an alpine scene, the interior with a bouquet of fl owers on a sky blue ground, concealed key compartment in the back. Notes A very similar box is illustrated in : Sharon and Christian Bailly, “Flights of Fancy, Mechanical Singing Birds”, Antiquorum Editions, 2001, p. 267.


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Date:
2012-11-11

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