GILT AND ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX
Attributed to Griesbaum,Germany. Made circa 1960.
Fine, gilt-metal and painted on enamel singing bird box.
Two-body, rectangular with engraved round corners,
side panels with painted on enamel rural alpine lakeside
scenes set within cream enamel borders, bird cover
painted with a enamel scene featuring a scene of a
mandolin player courting two young ladies and various
lake scenes.
Rectangular brass, going barrel and rectangular
bellows, the revolving bird with moving wings and beak,
controlled by two cams mounted beneath the barrel
wheel, gilt grille pierced and engraved with foliage.