BRUGUIER. A FINE AND RARE GILT SILVER SINGING BIRD BOX WITH ENAMEL MINIATURES

CHARLES BRUGUIER. A FINE AND RARE SILVER GILT AND ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX

SIGNED CHARLES BRUGUIER, GENEVE, NO. 258, CIRCA 1850

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CHARLES BRUGUIER. A FINE AND RARE SILVER GILT AND ENAMEL SINGING BIRD BOX
SIGNED CHARLES BRUGUIER, GENEVE, NO. 258, CIRCA 1850
brass movement with chain fusée, stacked cams, fly regulator and rectangular bellow, entirely engine-turned and engraved foliage decorated rectangular box, the sides with "taille-douce" engraved floral and foliage decorated sides and bottom over engine-turned background, the top with polychrome enamel landscape scene, a polychrome enamel bouquet of flowers on a blue background to the inside, opening to reveal a finley pierced and engraved scroll decorated grille and to release the colorfully plumed bird, rotating on its axis, chriping, flapping its wings, wagging its tail, turning it's head and opening its beak; movement signed and numbered, case with hand scratched number 258;
91 x 57 x 31 mm.

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Lot Essay

US$25,000-35,000

Charles-Abraham Bruguier was born in Geneva in 1788. Throughout his early professional life he concentrated on automata, working for a number of different manufacturers both in London and Geneva before setting up his own business in Geneva. Bruguier was able to master the technique of re-creating "Bird-Song", far greater than his better known predecessors Jaquet-Droz and Les Freres Rochat. After his death in 1862 his workshops were passed down to his two sons and later to his grandson.

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