An exceptional and rare vari-coloured gold musical automaton snuff-box Swiss movement, circa 1820; the box most probably Russian, circa 1827 The domed glazed and hinged cover, enclosing a scene of the interior of a music room with vari-colour gold detail automaton of a lady seated, playing a xylophone, a conductor keeping time with a baton and a small boy accompanying with a triangle, standing beside a sleeping dog, the room behind in painted enamel with drapes and furnishings, with applied oval enamel plaque of blue guilloche set with diamond Cyrillic monogram EP to top centre, with the plain gold border inscribed in Russian July 22, 1827 , set in to octagonal box with curved top and base edges, decorated with chiselled bands of green foliage and wreaths against stippled ground, the sides with applied intertwining branches and the base with a polished circular panel of mocha agate, enclosed with further foliage bands, the plain interior and first movement cover, opening to reveal pierced winding and regulator plates and decorated border, apparently unmarked, (winding key hole moved and covered), with replacement winding key, fitted in later Wartski of London red twin-door case 3 3/16 in. (8.1cm) diameter overall, 1¼in. (3.2cm) high maximum
An exceptional and rare vari-coloured gold musical automaton snuff-box Swiss movement, circa 1820; the box most probably Russian, circa 1827 The domed glazed and hinged cover, enclosing a scene of the interior of a music room with vari-colour gold detail automaton of a lady seated, playing a xylophone, a conductor keeping time with a baton and a small boy accompanying with a triangle, standing beside a sleeping dog, the room behind in painted enamel with drapes and furnishings, with applied oval enamel plaque of blue guilloche set with diamond Cyrillic monogram EP to top centre, with the plain gold border inscribed in Russian July 22, 1827 , set in to octagonal box with curved top and base edges, decorated with chiselled bands of green foliage and wreaths against stippled ground, the sides with applied intertwining branches and the base with a polished circular panel of mocha agate, enclosed with further foliage bands, the plain interior and first movement cover, opening to reveal pierced winding and regulator plates and decorated border, apparently unmarked, (winding key hole moved and covered), with replacement winding key, fitted in later Wartski of London red twin-door case 3 3/16 in. (8.1cm) diameter overall, 1¼in. (3.2cm) high maximum
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