A. Leschot. A fine multi-coloured gilt and enamel siging bird box
A. Leschot. A fine multi-coloured gilt and enamel siging bird box

SIGNED A. LESCHOT, CIRCA 1860

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A. Leschot. A fine multi-coloured gilt and enamel siging bird box
Signed A. Leschot, circa 1860
With gilt brass movement, steel lever work, chain fusee, rectangular bellows, the engraved rectangular-shaped box with scalloped corners, entirely decorated with yellow, white and pink gilt floral, scroll, foliage, urn and cherub decoration, the outside of the oval lid centered by a finely detailed polychrome enamel hand-painted scene of two sailboats with mountains to the background and trees to the foreground, the inside of the lid with white enamel floral decoration to a blue enamel background, the oval lid opened by a slide in the front to reveal a finely detailed singing bird rotating on its axis that turns its head and flaps its wings, finely pierced and engraved floral and scroll decoration to the grill, accompanied by a fitted presentation box and key, case signed A. Leschot
100 mm. x 61 mm. x 41 mm.