Details
A singing bird box by Rochat
in silver-gilt case, the top enamelled with flowers among gilt scrolls, the lid enamelled with a spray of flowers on pale blue ground, the bombé sides engraved with foliate and floriate scrolls on engine-turned fields, with similar engraving to the base, the fusee movement wound from the top, with four pairs of cams, FR stamp and incised name Moise Golay, the bird with moving perch, wings, tail, neck and bone beak -- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) wide, in contemporary leather travelling case
in silver-gilt case, the top enamelled with flowers among gilt scrolls, the lid enamelled with a spray of flowers on pale blue ground, the bombé sides engraved with foliate and floriate scrolls on engine-turned fields, with similar engraving to the base, the fusee movement wound from the top, with four pairs of cams, FR stamp and incised name Moise Golay, the bird with moving perch, wings, tail, neck and bone beak -- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) wide, in contemporary leather travelling case
Further details
See front cover illustration