Name: Auction: FRENCH PORCELAIN MOUNTED GILT AND SILVERED BRASS BIRDCAGE AND SINGING BIRD AUTOMATON, BONTEMS, PARIS LATE 19TH CENTURY
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 13750 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Day One: 18 May 2022 | From 11:00

Day Two: 19 May 2022 | From 11:00

Sale number: 689&nbsp; Our May 2022 edition of&nbsp;Five Centuries&nbsp;featured a superb range of furniture, paintings and works of art.&nbsp;May's edition included select items from the Estate of the Late Col. H.J. Gillman, Property of an Edinburgh Collector, Property of a Lady of Glasgow, Property from the Estate of the Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton and selected items from the Collection of Charles Edward Fox (1796 - 1873). The sale is led by two works by John Atkinson Grimshaw, a pair of George III Marquetry Tables attributed to Thomas Chippendale, a group of 19th Century Meissen, a Louis XVI Aubusson Suite and a selection of Roman Antiquities.&nbsp;

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Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art

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the bird pivoting on its perch with movement to the beak, head, and tail, the domed cage mounted with lovebirds and flower sprays, on an octagonal base set with Sèvres style porcelain plaques alternately painted with birds and Cupid, stamped on the base BONTEMS/ PARIS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

FRENCH PORCELAIN MOUNTED GILT AND SILVERED BRASS BIRDCAGE AND SINGING BIRD AUTOMATON, BONTEMS, PARIS

FRENCH PORCELAIN MOUNTED GILT AND SILVERED BRASS BIRDCAGE AND SINGING BIRD AUTOMATON, BONTEMS, PARIS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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