Rare "Sonnette de l'Entracte" ("Intermission Bell") Musical Auto
拍品号:20161105-518
预估价:€ 25000-35000 欧元
起拍价:€ 20000 欧元
成交价: € 24593.4 欧元
外观成色:3
布雷克拍品等级是为了方便竞买人判断拍卖品的成色而设置的。布雷克等级用1到6级来标注外观和功能的成色,(从非常好到非常差)。 在目录图册里用括号里的2个数字来表示,前一个数字表示外观成色的级别,后一个数字表示功能成色的级别。如(3/2)表示外观成色是3(满意的),功能成色2(好)。 成色 定义参照下列标准: 1 - 非常好 (未使用过,没有使用痕迹) 2 - 好 (新,极少的使用痕迹) 3 - 满意的 (普通的使用痕迹) 4 - 及格的 (明显的使用痕迹,某个非主要部件是后配的) 5 - 有缺陷的 (极明显的使用痕迹, 某个主要部件是后配的,功能上有缺陷,需要修理) 6 - 非常差 (严重破损, 缺少重要部件)
功能成色:2-3
布雷克拍品等级是为了方便竞买人判断拍卖品的成色而设置的。布雷克等级用1到6级来标注外观和功能的成色,(从非常好到非常差)。 在目录图册里用括号里的2个数字来表示,前一个数字表示外观成色的级别,后一个数字表示功能成色的级别。如(3/2)表示外观成色是3(满意的),功能成色2(好)。 成色 定义参照下列标准: 1 - 非常好 (未使用过,没有使用痕迹) 2 - 好 (新,极少的使用痕迹) 3 - 满意的 (普通的使用痕迹) 4 - 及格的 (明显的使用痕迹,某个非主要部件是后配的) 5 - 有缺陷的 (极明显的使用痕迹, 某个主要部件是后配的,功能上有缺陷,需要修理) 6 - 非常差 (严重破损, 缺少重要部件)
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拍品描述

With plaster-composition head, original paint, blue-tipped nose and a telegraph motif decorating his forehead, brown glass eyes, articulated eyelids and lower lip, seated on trapezoidal stool containing large going-barrel motor with seven cams and intermittent two-air cylinder movement, the clown dressed in original worn red satin tailcoat with black lapels, yellow silk shirt, bowtie and checked silk trousers, ht. 30 in. (76 cm), (leather on eyelids and lip split, replacement stop/start lever). With steel key and (faded) label of "Henry Vichy, 36 rue Montmorency, Paris". – The clown sleeps whenever he gets the chance. The intermission bell interrupts his slumber, not once but three times. After the first two rings, the clown wakes briefly, opens his eyes and then returns to sleep. The third ring reminds him of his audience and finally obliges him to start playing again. He lifts his head, raises the banjo and strums while looking from side to side, nodding, fluttering his eyelids, swinging his right leg and moving his lower lip as if singing with such animation that he soon becomes tired again and drifts slowly back to sleep. – The musical movement has two special features: an intermittent driving-gear that times the music to play only when the clown is awake and a paper roll 'zither' on the comb that reproduces the sound of a banjo. – Literature: Bailly, "Automata, the Golden Age", p. 262. – "Sonnette de l'Entracte" was described by Léo Claretie in "Les Jouets, Histoire-Fabrication" in 1893: "This famous clown attracted great crowds. Children were on their best behaviour when they were promised a visit to see him, and indeed he was well worth the trouble, for he had a most pleasing appearance. Auguste is seated on a white stool, his left leg folded under his right knee, and he plays the guitar (sic). After a pause … the head of the artist droops, the eyes blink sleepily … the arm again falls inert, the music stops, the clown sleeps. Suddenly a bell resounds and rouses him, his fingers begin again to strum furiously in shame over his drowsiness … until the next spell of sleepiness from which the next sounding of the bell will waken him." – We know of only four other examples of this automaton: one formerly in York Museum of Automata; two in private collections; one offered at Sotheby's New Bond St., 15 September 1993, Lot 329. This example, discovered with Lot 520 in a Mexican estate, is presented in rare unrestored original working condition.


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布雷克拍品等级是为了方便竞买人判断拍卖品的成色而设置的。布雷克等级用1到6级来标注外观和功能的成色,(从非常好到非常差)。 在目录图册里用括号里的2个数字来表示,前一个数字表示外观成色的级别,后一个数字表示功能成色的级别。如(3/2)表示外观成色是3(满意的),功能成色2(好)。 成色 定义参照下列标准: 1 - 非常好 (未使用过,没有使用痕迹) 2 - 好 (新,极少的使用痕迹) 3 - 满意的 (普通的使用痕迹) 4 - 及格的 (明显的使用痕迹,某个非主要部件是后配的) 5 - 有缺陷的 (极明显的使用痕迹, 某个主要部件是后配的,功能上有缺陷,需要修理) 6 - 非常差 (严重破损, 缺少重要部件)
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