Automata

Automaton “Bear – drum player”

    Automaton “Bear – drum player”

    France, Paris

    Circa 1900

    Roullet & Decamps

    Papier-mâché, wood, fur, metal, leather; mechanical work, sewing, carving

    58 x 20 x 33 cm

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    The automaton, fashioned as a bear, stands on its hind legs featuring carved wooden claws. The bear is made of papier-mâché covered in black rabbit fur, featuring black glass eyes and a wire-muzzled mouth open in a fierce growl, revealing its teeth.
    When the spring is wound and the mechanism is switched on, roaring sound and tapping of drumsticks are heard: the bear turns its head, moves its paws, beats the drum with the drumsticks, and opens and closes its mouth to replicate growling, with the actions repeated several times.

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