Mechanical Compositions

Musical automaton, with glass dome

    Musical automaton, with glass dome

    France

    Early 20th century

    Wood, metal, glass, paper, cardboard; painting, joinery, mechanical work, turning, painting

    40 x 38.5 x 18 cm

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    Mounted on the top panel of an oval black wooden base raised on four turned supports is a cardboard model featuring a tower on the left side, surrounded by steep-roofed buildings standing on the rocky, plant-covered shore of a bay, and a paddle steamer tossing on the waves on the right side. When the mechanisms are wound and switched on, one of two melodies plays: a small figure of a sentinel near the tower moves in a circle inside the parapet, and the steamer rocks on the waves. Protective glass dome is  in the set.

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