An Early 20thC German Singing Bird Cage Automaton c.1930 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope the base with four scrolling

the base with four scrolling foliate corner supports surrounding further interlocking central foliate designs

To the reverse it retains its original papered back panel

who later became Quentin Tarantino's acting coach (for better or worse)

to a semi elliptical crescent moon frame to a turned stand and draught turned base and surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century

An Early 20thC German Singing Bird Cage Automaton c.1930 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope the base with four scrollingOrigin: GermanPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1930Height: 11. 5Diameter: 5. 75The two bird singing automaton in good working order, being brass cased with a domed top to hanging ring, the two singing birds chirping for a full two and half minutes on a full wind, the real fathered plumage in yellow black and red black amongst leaves and foliage, the circular base cast with garlands of flowers, the whole being raised on three short turned