Details
An English yew-wood automaton toy, second half 19th century
Modelled as a baby monkey riding on the back of its parent, with articulated limbs, when operated performing a hand stand at the top of the cylindrical shaft, with bone terminal knop carved as a clenched fist
22in. (56cm.) long, extended
Modelled as a baby monkey riding on the back of its parent, with articulated limbs, when operated performing a hand stand at the top of the cylindrical shaft, with bone terminal knop carved as a clenched fist
22in. (56cm.) long, extended
Literature
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. For similar example p.211, pl. 218.