• 鏤空雕刻多色金人物在弓形蹺蹺板上平衡，彈奏七弦琴的愛神丘比特站立於中間，熊熊火炬置於階梯底座，琺瑯古典花園、柱廊與瀑布背景，殼面飾琺瑯花瓶，配半透明紅色底，藍色琺瑯幾何圖案，揭蓋背面配金色內蓋 • 盾形機芯，黃銅板，單一發條啟動帶針圓筒音樂裝置及活動人偶，由吊墜右上方的滑桿啟動 • 機圈及側面飾紅色、白色及藍色琺瑯新古典風格圖案 • 背面繪琺瑯古典花園中的男女 • 備同系列金鍊、黃金及琺瑯滑動鍊帶及皮盒

* 拍品資料以英文圖錄為準。

Farouk I, King of Egypt 1952
Sotheby & Co., The Palace Collections of Egypt, Koubbeh Palace, Cairo, March 10, 1954, lot 521
Prominent American Family until present

Sotheby & Co., The Palace Collections of Egypt, Koubbeh Palace, Cairo, March 10, 1954, lot 521, p. 91, plate 24 top left
Alfred Chapuis, Edmund Droz, Automata, pp. 176, 178, fig. 196, 1958

The present piece is illustrated in Alfred Chapuis and Edmund Droz, Automata, 1958, p. 178, fig. 196. It is interesting to note the facing page illustrates two lots that made up part of the current collection: the double scent flask known as the “The Cherry Pickers” and the snuff box known as “Blind Man’s Bluff.”  Both were sold at Sotheby’s New York, June 2015, Swiss Mechanical Marvels Part I, lots 108 and 106.

The current lot  was one of two shield form automa🍸tons in the Farouk sale, the current piece formerly lot 521 in the 1954 sale and then lot 523 resold at Sotheby’s Geneva, May 2010, lot 90.  The current lot has the added feature of music; the shield sold in 2010 was automaton only🐻.

For a note on Piguet and Capt, see lot 83.