• another-masque:

    An important silver standing singing bird automaton,
    circa 1880, movement most probably Bontems,

    The standing Sky Lark with low tail feather pose, leaning slightly to one side, with deep red glass eyes, when actuated, turning head and moving beak to continuous birdsong from the going-barrel movement, hidden start button to chest, winding hole with automatic hole fill-plate to left side, on out-stretched feet, the body with exceptional tooled feathering detail, counter-sunk screw fixing centre-seem for movement access, in original midnight blue velvet-lined travelling box, with outer black finish and gilt tooled highlights, with a period key - 5in. (13cm) high, 6.1/2in. (16.5cm) from beak to tail, the case 5.1/2in. (14cm) square

    (via studyincontrasts)

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