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A singing bird bocage
with fabric tree, rocky outcrop housing a single-train clock movement, glass-twist stream and movements for three articulated birds, on ebonised base containing keywind going-barrel automaton movement and birdsong, under glass dome - 24in. (61cm.) high with dome, (lacking birds; tree, outcrop and base later additions); a Roullet et Decamps type automaton movement, playing one air and causing an all-bisque doll to emerge from a top hat, under glass dome - (originally for a rabbit in cabbage automaton) (2)
with fabric tree, rocky outcrop housing a single-train clock movement, glass-twist stream and movements for three articulated birds, on ebonised base containing keywind going-barrel automaton movement and birdsong, under glass dome - 24in. (61cm.) high with dome, (lacking birds; tree, outcrop and base later additions); a Roullet et Decamps type automaton movement, playing one air and causing an all-bisque doll to emerge from a top hat, under glass dome - (originally for a rabbit in cabbage automaton) (2)
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