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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 142

?The Flamingo ? Singing Bird Box ? Piece Unique? Value Swiss, Ermatingen, pièce unique, No. 2TN18. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, silver-gilt and painted on enamel singing bird box with a fitted wooden box and key.

C. Three-body, oval, the polished top with rope-twist and stylized leaf border, singing bird cover finely painted on enamel with a wading flamingo, the body overlaid with translucent oyster-colored guilloché enamel, engineturned base.
M. Singing bird movement: going barrel, rectangular belows, Griesbaum-type whistle, the bird rotating and moving wings, tail and beak, controlled by a rack and two cams mounted beneath the barrel, gilt brass grille engraved with foliage, activated by a slide in the side of the case. Case signed. Dim. 127 x 71 x 48 mm.