巴黎产Lautespielender Clown音乐娃娃

With paper-mâché head, painted insects on the cheeks and chin, fixed brown glass eyes, two-color mohair topknot, bisque hands holding inlaid mother-of-pearl lute with bone neck and carved pegs (one missing), on velvet-covered base with single-air going-barrel movement driving four cams with five levers that cause the musician to strum with his right hand while raising the neck of the instrument in his left, leaning back and forth on his stool, crossing one leg and then lifting both together, bending his head in concentration, looking left and right as though to survey his audience, and then saucily sticking out his tongue. Dressed in painted cream satin suit with blue latticework bolero jacket, height 23 in. (58 cm), (face retouched), with brass LB key and stop/start. – Literature: Bailly, "Automata, the Golden Age", pp 181, 351.
– A very handsome example of a classic Lambert automaton with a complex series of motions.