Manivelle Automaton of a Cats' Tea Party, circa 1890, the five fur-covered cats with glass eyes, articulated heads, mouths, paws and tails, one standing and four seated on turned stools around a circular table laid with a blue-and-white painted tea service, on grain-painted and polychrome paper-covered base containing the hand-turned mechanism playing Daisy Daisy, one other air and operating bellows for intermittent "meowing" effect, wd. 12 in., ht. 8 1/2 in., (one missing an eye), total of twenty-two movements. Note: The cats raise their teacups with one paw, gesticulate with the other, while swishing their tails and looking from side to side and opening their mouths as though gossiping.
Manivelle Automaton of a Cats' Tea Party, circa 1890, the five fur-covered cats with glass eyes, articulated heads, mouths, paws and tails, one standing and four seated on turned stools around a circular table laid with a blue-and-white painted tea service, on grain-painted and polychrome paper-covered base containing the hand-turned mechanism playing Daisy Daisy, one other air and operating bellows for intermittent "meowing" effect, wd. 12 in., ht. 8 1/2 in., (one missing an eye), total of twenty-two movements. Note: The cats raise their teacups with one paw, gesticulate with the other, while swishing their tails and looking from side to side and opening their mouths as though gossiping.
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