A 19TH CENTURY STYLE REPRODUCTION MUSICAL AUTOMATON

A 19TH CENTURY STYLE REPRODUCTION MUSICAL AUTOMATON, in the form of a boy sat in barrel and holding a cup, wearing traditional North African attire, upon a velvet clad plinth base with a tasseled edge, with a fascimile label to the base for the Exposition D'Arte Automaton, Dinant, 1897

46cm high x 29cm deep x 30cm deep

Provenance: Part of the extensive collection of musical boxes and automata of the late Daphne Ladell – longstanding member of the Musical Box Society of Great Britain and the Musical Box Society International.