Estimate

2.000 - 3.000

Session 2

21 March 2023

Hammer Price

Description

Automaton
Polychrome papier mâché
Textile clothing
Painted wooden stand and column
Glass dome
Marked A. Theroude-Paris
Ca. 1850
(mechanism in need of service, minor faults and evidence of woodworm)

Height: 42 cm (autómato) Height: 127 cm (total)

Category

Objects

Note:

This automaton model and variations in design are illustrated in Bailly's Automata, The Golden Age:1848-1914, by Christian Bailly and Sharon Bailly, published in 1987 by Sotheby's Publications.