.jpg?w=1)
Details
A Vichy black banjo player automaton
with papier-mâché head, smiling mouth with painted teeth, brown glass eyes, articulated eyelids and black hair wig, seated on the back of a white-painted wood chair, the going-barrel movement playing one air and causing the figure to turn and nod his head, strum the banjo with his right hand and lift and cross his right leg, in original shirt, jacket and polychrome striped breeches -- 22½in. (57cm.) high, with Vichy key, (breeches decayed, one toe missing)
with papier-mâché head, smiling mouth with painted teeth, brown glass eyes, articulated eyelids and black hair wig, seated on the back of a white-painted wood chair, the going-barrel movement playing one air and causing the figure to turn and nod his head, strum the banjo with his right hand and lift and cross his right leg, in original shirt, jacket and polychrome striped breeches -- 22½in. (57cm.) high, with Vichy key, (breeches decayed, one toe missing)
Literature
Christian Bailly, (1987), Automata, The Golden Age 1848 - 1914, p. 104
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis