A musical box playing six overtures, No.54721, with double-spring lever-wind motor, in walnut case with carved musical instruments, arabesques and caryatids to the front, on matching bureau with shaped and carved fall, baize-lined interior with shelf above, drawer below with carved front and open stand with carved scrolling legs with satyr heads, lions paw feet and shaped stretchers with carved central mask --54½in. (138cm.) high, the cylinder 15in.(38cm.) long, 3 1/8in.(8cm.) diam.

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A musical box playing six overtures, No.54721, with double-spring lever-wind motor, in walnut case with carved musical instruments, arabesques and caryatids to the front, on matching bureau with shaped and carved fall, baize-lined interior with shelf above, drawer below with carved front and open stand with carved scrolling legs with satyr heads, lions paw feet and shaped stretchers with carved central mask --54½in. (138cm.) high, the cylinder 15in.(38cm.) long, 3 1/8in.(8cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Although the musical box case and bureau appear to have been designed as one entity, the musical box can be removed, leaving a flat polished top on the bureau, so that the two could be used separately.

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