Items with musical mechanism and automaton

Snuffbox with singing bird

    Snuffbox with singing bird

    Switzerland, Great Britain

    Circa 1815

    Guidon, Remond, Gide & Co. (case), P. Jaquet-Droz & Leschot (movement), Jaquet-Droz, Rémond, Jean-George

    Steel, brass, feathers, leather, fabric, gold, pearls; casting, painted (pictorial) enamel, setting of gemstones, mechanical works, gilding, engraving

    3.3 x 8.5 x 4.5 cm

    In the tobacco compartment two marks “G.R.G.” under a crown, and one on the inner side of the top cover, on the openwork grille on the left: “Jaq.t Droz & Leschot, London”, on the bellows plate a scratched signature “Jacob Frisard, Bienne”

    3844.1-3PCA215/ДПИ