Description
Music box with extremely fine Viennese enamel painting in bronze, gilt and partly enameled. Fully sculpted music box in the shape of a concert grand piano on three conical legs with a small, round stool. Hinged piano and keyboard lid. Inside a small compartment lined with red velvet. The walls surrounded by stylized columns in relief alternating with oval medallions and calyx decoration. The lid, the keyboard and the stool decorated with fine polychrome enamel painting, in part with scenic depictions of a pair of shepherds, musicians and two putti. Signed "G (?) B." Elevator on the underside of the base. H. 7.3 cm. 10 cm x 13 cm. Stool h. 3.2 cm. Provenance: R. Zohar, New York 2007; subsequently in a private collection in Brandenburg. A very fine Vienna gilt bronze music box in shape of a grand piano with enamelled paintings and small stool. Indistinctly signed. Austria. Vienna. 2nd half 19th century.
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Music box with extremely fine Viennese enamel painting in bronze, gilt and partly enameled. Fully sculpted music box in the shape of a concert grand piano on three conical legs with a small, round stool. Hinged piano and keyboard lid. Inside a small compartment lined with red velvet. The walls surrounded by stylized columns in relief alternating with oval medallions and calyx decoration. The lid, the keyboard and the stool decorated with fine polychrome enamel painting, in part with scenic depictions of a pair of shepherds, musicians and two putti. Signed "G (?) B." Elevator on the underside of the base. H. 7.3 cm. 10 cm x 13 cm. Stool h. 3.2 cm. Provenance: R. Zohar, New York 2007; subsequently in a private collection in Brandenburg. A very fine Vienna gilt bronze music box in shape of a grand piano with enamelled paintings and small stool. Indistinctly signed. Austria. Vienna. 2nd half 19th century.
