25th Mar, 2014 10:00

Fine Art

 
Lot 961
 

Sold for £2,000


Lot details
A ''Gentleman Smoker'' musical automaton, by Leopold Lambert, c.1890, depicting a young black man in red tail coat and black breeches, the bisque head probably by Jumeau, marked No. 11, with glass eyes, painted eyebrows and lips, pierced ears (missing wig), a cigar held in one of his two bisque painted hands, standing on the mechanism box covered in cut velvet and fitted with original ''LB'' key (mechanism not working), 23in. (59cms) high.
 

Auction: Fine Art, 25th Mar, 2014

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