Musical automaton "Negre jouant de la mandoline" - image-1

Lot 836 Dα

Musical automaton "Negre jouant de la mandoline"

Auction 1028 - overview Cologne
16.05.2014, 14:00 - Decorative Arts III
Estimate: 5.000 € - 8.000 €
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Musical automaton "Negre jouant de la mandoline"

Wind-up mechanism, attached original key and locking button. Leather covered wooden head with glass eyes, fur, textile, embroidery and painted wood. The right arm, the head and the eyelids move to the music. Mounted to a modern plinth. Soiled, the textile partially worn, two scratches to the forehead. H 65 cm.
Roullet et Decamps, Paris, last quarter 19th C.

Provenance

The Inamarie and H.G. Klein collection, Cologne.

Literature

Cf. Bailly, Automaten, Munich 1988, p. 275 (nr. 4 shows a scan of the original Roullet et Decamps catalogue).