Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces · 9 November 2014

Exceptional Early & Small Singing Bird Cage Clock with Automaton Jumping Bird & Automaton

EXCEPTIONAL EARLY & SMALL SINGING BIRD CAGE CLOCK WITH AUTOMATON JUMPING BIRD & AUTOMATON WATERFALL Attributable to Jaquet-Droz et Leschot, Geneva, "oiseau chantant et sautant de perche en perche", the metalwork attributable to Frères Billon, the movement to Henri Maillardet. Made circa 1785. Exceptional, extremely fine, rare and diminutive, gilded-brass, automaton singing bird table clock with "jumping" early-type painted bird with automated beak, wings and tail and automaton waterfall activate

Lot

Antiquorum, November 2014

Hammer result

CHF 291,750

about $301,270 at today's rate

27% below the high estimate
Low estimate CHF 200,000
High estimate CHF 400,000
In USD $206,526 to $413,052

The lot

Auction house

Antiquorum

Sale

Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Date

9 November 2014

Lot number

578

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