Estimate

7.000 - 9.000

Session 2

7 October 2014

Hammer Price

Description

Automaton
Winding mechanism with four movements and one melody
Papier-maché and other materials head and body
The wood base designed as a chair containing the mechanism that moves the head, eyelids, the right arm and the right foot
Gustave Vichy, France, 20th century
(working, minor defects and restorations)

Height 59cm

Category

Objects

Additional Information

Note: Several examples of this model are known but there''s no information of other piece in which the figure playing banjo is a mulatto