LOT DETAILS

Materials:

enamelled fur set with irregularly-shaped baroque pearls

Size Notes:

tail: 12.5 long

Description:

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Markings:

unmarked

Literature:

L. Montandon & A. Chapuis, 'Les Maillardet', Musée Neuchatelois, 1917-18;. A. Chapuis & E. Gélis, Le Monde des Automates. Paris, 1928;. Alfred Chapuis & Edmond Droz, Les Automates, Neuchatel, 1949;. Exhibition catalogue, Antique Automatons, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1950;. Exhibition catalogue, Horloges et Automates,, Musee du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, 1954;. R. Altick, The Shows of London, Cambridge, 1978;. A. Winter-Jensen, Automates et Musiques, Musée de l'Horlogerie, Geneva, 1985;. Sharon & Christian Bailly, Oiseaux de Bonheur, Geneva, 2001;. Bernard Pin, Watches & Automata, The Maurice Sandoz Collection, Le Locle, 2011;. Exhibition catalogue, Automates & Merveilles, Le Locle, 2012 ;. and archival sources in Geneva and London

Provenance:

Family collection, believed to have been acquired in the late 19th or early 20th Century;. the Property of a Lady of Title