Items with musical mechanism and automaton

Box with singing bird

    Box with singing bird

    Switzerland, Great Britain

    Circa 1785

    Guidon, Remond, Gide & Co. (case) , P. Jaquet-Droz & Leschot (movement), Jaquet-Droz

    Enamel, steel, brass, feathers, gold; casting, painted (pictorial) enamel, guilloché enamel, gem setting, mechanical works

    3.8 x 9.3 x 5.8 cm, 386 g

    In the tobacco compartment, the mark “G.R.G.” under a crown; on the openwork grille on both sides: “Jaq.t Droz & Leschot, London”

    3494PCA225/ДПИ