A PARCEL-GILT SILVER SINGING BIRD BOX, PROBABLY KARL GRIESBAUM, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER SINGING BIRD BOX, PROBABLY KARL GRIESBAUM, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

wavy rectangular form, cast with birds and scrolls, the small oval lid cast with a bird above ribbon, flanked by cornucopiae, opening to reveal a feathered singing bird automaton, struck with Austro Hungarian control marks, bird-shaped key

10.2cm., 4 in. wide

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Condition Report:
The lid slightly bent, hence not shutting entirely; some light surface wear and tiny dents; silver beak (not ivory); the bird singing and moving at time of cataloguing. Sotheby's does not guarantee the functioning of movements.

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Provenance:
L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. BO 22-06