SILVER & ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX
Attributed to Griesbaum, Germany. Made circa 1960.
Fine, silver and painted-on-enamel singing bird box.
Two-body, rectangular with engraved rounded
corners, side panels with painted-on-enamel rural
alpine lakeside scenes set within white and translucent
green champlevé enamel borders, bird cover
painted with a rustic country scene of a mother and
two children with their dog, the scene continues on
the top panel.
Rectangular brass, going barrel and rectangular
bellows, the revolving bird with moving wings and
beak, controlled by two cams mounted beneath the
barrel wheel, silver grille pierced and engraved with
foliage.
Case punched with German silver marks.