GILT & 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
rounded corners, side panels with painted-
on-enamel rural chateaux and alpine
lakeside scenes set within white and
translucent royal blue champlevé enamel
borders, bird cover painted with a rustic
country scene of a gentleman and two
ladies with sheep, 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, gilt grille pierced and engraved with
foliage.