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Lot Essay
This larger than usual rocking ship automaton is driven by a separate going-barrel automaton movement, rather than by a cylinder movement with extended arbor as is normally seen.
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A fine musical tableau animé
rocking ship automaton, the painted wood and card scene with houses, cathedral, windmill on a hill, river mouth with ship, hand-coloured cut-paper spectators, two bridges and going-barrel movement causing the windmill sails to turn, the ship to toss on tissue-paper waves, infantrymen to cross the first bridge and cavalry the second, on ebonised base with pull-string cylinder movement playing two airs, under painted glass dome - 28in. (71cm.) high with dome
rocking ship automaton, the painted wood and card scene with houses, cathedral, windmill on a hill, river mouth with ship, hand-coloured cut-paper spectators, two bridges and going-barrel movement causing the windmill sails to turn, the ship to toss on tissue-paper waves, infantrymen to cross the first bridge and cavalry the second, on ebonised base with pull-string cylinder movement playing two airs, under painted glass dome - 28in. (71cm.) high with dome
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