- FRENCH SINGING BIRD IN GILT CAGE AUTOMATON
French singing bird automaton, after a model by Lucien Bontemps and in the late 19th century taste, modeled as two small birds within a gilt metal cage, while singing the...
[more like this] - FRENCH SINGING BIRD IN GILT CAGE AUTOMATON
French singing bird automaton, after a model by Lucien Bontemps and in the late 19th century taste, modeled as small bird on a perch within a gilt metal cage, while singing...
[more like this] - A FRENCH SINGING BIRD AUTOMATON A French
singing bird automaton, the single chirps, moves its head, and tail, and is housed in a gilt case, underside marked Made In France, 11"h x 6.5"w...
[more like this] - CLOWN WITH VANISHING HEAD AUTOMATON.
PARIS, PIERRE MAYE...Clown with Vanishing Head Automaton. Paris, Pierre Mayer, ca. 2006. Handmade wooden automaton with exposed works. A clown holds a fan in front of his...
[more like this] - THE EARLY BIRD NEARLY CATCHES IT AUTOMATON.The
Early Bird Nearly Catches It Automaton. England: Neil Hardy, ca. 2000s. Wooden automaton depicting a group of birds on the top platform, one with its nose extended below for...
[more like this] - SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST AUTOMATON.Survival
of the Fittest Automaton. England: Neil Hardy, 2004. Electrical automaton with rotating informational displays on four different animals (whale, cheetah, alligator, and gorilla)...
[more like this] - CLOWN WITH VANISHING HEAD AUTOMATON.Clown
With Vanishing Head Automaton. Paris: Pierre Mayer, ca. 2006. Hand-painted wooden automaton with exposed works. Depicting a clown holding a fan in front of his face; as the...
[more like this] - ANTIQUE BOY MAGICIAN AUTOMATON.Antique
Boy Magician Automaton. French, late nineteenth century. Incomplete and non-functional automaton figure, originally depicting a Hindu boy magician at a table, vanishing and...
[more like this] - SATYR HEAD AUTOMATON.Satyr Head Automaton.
Findhorn: Michael Start, The House of Automata, 2011. Lifelike figure composed of papier-mache, plywood, and metal, having glass eyes and wind-up spring-driven clockwork motor,...
[more like this] - 19TH CENTURY OR LATER GILTWOOD AND BRASS
AUTOMATON BIRD...19th Century or Later Giltwood and Brass Automaton Bird Cage, having mechanical singing bird in brass cage with music box case, moving head, in working condition,...
[more like this] - ROULLET-DECAMPS LADY MAGICIAN AUTOMATON
Late 19th/early 20th century; wind up musical automaton with lady magician having bisque porcelain head and arms, dressed in black lace, and silk outfit with conical hat,...
[more like this] - SAM ZELL AUTOMATON, "THINK IT OVER"Sam
Zell automaton "Think It Over", his recorded voice gives financial commentary followed by the song "Stop in the Name of Love" by the Supremes, periodically the seated man...
[more like this] - MUSICAL DOLL PUPPETEER AUTOMATON Circa
1900. Boy is dressed in period fabric costume with fine lace work and puppeteering a marionette. Head and hands are made from porcelain with realistic features. The figure...
[more like this] - JUMEAU FRENCH AUTOMATON "THE FRUIT SELLER
WITH SURPRISES" Standing upon a green velvet covered platform is a bisque-head doll with blue glass paperweight eyes, closed mouth, blonde mohair wig, carton torso and legs,...
[more like this] - RARE FRENCH AUTOMATON BISQUE-HEAD DOLL
CIRCA 1890 HEIGHT 18"., Circa 1890, Blonde wig, blue eyes, pierced ears, open mouth and composition limbs. Key-wind body. Dressed in a white lace dress. Dimensions: Height...
[more like this] - LEOPOLD LAMBERT SMOKER AUTOMATON, CIRCA
1900 1900, with paper label, modeled as a gentleman in top hat with papier mache head...
[more like this] - FRENCH TETE JUMEAU BISQUE HEAD MUSICAL
AUTOMATONFrench Tete Jumeau bisque head musical automaton, stamped on back of head Tete Jumeau Bte S. G. D. G. , having fixed blue paperweight eyes, closed mouth, head and...
[more like this] - THREE AUTOMATONS INCLUDING A MUSICAL
WOMAN, A FUR BEAR AND A CIRCUS ACROBAT HARLEQUIN, TOGETHER WITH A GLAZED CERAMIC FIGURE WOMAN, A FUR BEAR AND A CIRCUS ACROBAT HARLEQUIN, TOGETHER WITH A GLAZED CERAMIC FIGURE,...
[more like this] - RARE ROULLET ET DECAMPS MUSICAL MAGICIAN
AUTOMATON c. 1880-1885, France, "Magicienne", female magician with bisque head and portrait face, painted features, glass eyes, in fashionable silk magician's costume with...
[more like this] - SEVEN DWARFS AUTOMATONS, COMPOSITION
WITH WOODENSTANDS. 30" TO 34" HIGH. ONE ON PLATFORM IS 48" HIGH. THE HEADS MOVE SLOWLY AND SOME HAVE MOVING HANDS. DWARF WITH BROWN HAT IS IN WORKING CONDITION, BUT NEEDS...
[more like this] - CIRCA 1900 EXTRAORDINARY AUTOMATON SHADOWBOXWEDDING
SCENE, WITH BELL RINGER, PREACHER, BRIDE AND GROOM, AND ATTENDEES. WIND UP MECHANISM WINDS, BUT NEEDS ADJUSTING, WORKS WHEN TURNED MANUALLY. IN A FOLK PAINTED WOODEN CASE,...
[more like this] - SMOKING MONKEY AUTOMATON, CA. 1890,
POSSIBLY BYthe House of Phalbois, Paris. "Standing Marquis". Paper Mache head, glass eyes. Eye blink and lips move, lifts cigarette holder to his mouth, turns his head, and...
[more like this] - SCARCE 19TH C. CARVED WOOD CHINESE AUTOMATON
HEAD OF AN ACTOR Carved and painted wood with inset glass eyes and what was a reticulated mouth but is now fixed in place, in remnants of red paint, used in the theatre and...
[more like this] - BLAISE BONTEMS TRIPLE BIRD CAGE AUTOMATON
CA. 1880 23 ½" Bird cage with three singing birds which chirp when operating, the cycle of operation determined by gears and levers. One bird will start the action, the...
[more like this] - LARGE SIGNED ''VICHY'' AUTOMATON WITH
JUMEAU HEAD Rare flange neck bisque head stamped in red ''Tete Jumeau Bte 5.6.0.6. '' with superb modeling and painting flat velvet covered base has brass Vichy insignia still...
[more like this] - EXCELLENT EARLY FRENCH AUTOMATON/FASHION
DOLL Extraordinary all original key wind musical mechanical doll in exquisite late 1870's colorful dress with unmarked bisque head by either Bru or Barrois mounted on a metal...
[more like this] - French automaton with Bahr & Proschild
German bisque head; child clown circus trainer with Steiff? mohair bear cub. The childs head turns from side to side while arms alternately lift to direct bear to pirouette...
[more like this] - FRENCH MUSICAL AUTOMATON WITH JUMEAU
HEAD Closed mouth flanged head stamped in red ''Depose Tete Jumeau Bte. SGDG '' brown paperweight eyes wears original blond mohair wig most likely hat top of costume and apron...
[more like this] - WIND UP MUSICAL AUTOMATON DOLL AND GLASS
DOME: Bisque head marked with impressed crossed swords and S painted facial features. In working order her head and arms move along with the music. The velvet plinth and her...
[more like this] - TOY AUTOMATON - Austrian Musical Automaton
Rabbit in Cabbage having glazed fabric leaves over papier-mache frame (with concealed battery pocket for light up eyes) wind-up action had real-fur rabbit rising out of head...
[more like this] - Leopold Lambert S.F.B.J. French bisque
head doll automaton; the maiden holds a lace cloth which she dabs with scent from a bottle, sniffs, and turns head. Silk clothing designed by Eugenie Marie Bourgois shows...
[more like this] - Collection of Four Black-Man Items,
consisting of a rare polychromed tin "Alabama Coon Jigger" automaton of a dancing black youth, first quarter 20th century, h. 10"; "Black Sambo", a polychromed cast-iron mechanical...
[more like this] - Lambert Tete Jumeau bisque head French
automaton; Russian tea server/Bebe Russe, ca. 1890. She turns head and pours tea. Silk costume designed by Eugenie Maria Bourgois shows deterioration. ex. Christian Bailly...
[more like this] - Lambert clown with tambourine French
Jumeau bisque head automaton; the white face painted with the four playing card suits; the body swivels and right arm moves tambourine up and down. Silk costume designed by...
[more like this] - French automaton flower seller costumed
in French Revolution era attire. The German bisque head girl moves her head from side to side while arms move up and down. 20"H. Music plays soft, and key sometimes needs...
[more like this] - Simon & Halbig 1039 bisque head automaton
with fan and lorgnette; the girl turns head from side to side, bats eyes, and alternately fans herself and lifts lorgnette. 22'"H. Some wear to shoes and velvet on base; lines...
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