Subasta Especial de Arte Colonial y Alta Época
Painting with automaton music from the 19th century. Paris, hand-colored lithograph depicting a Mediterranean port scene with an abbey, fountain, viaduct, and watchtower on a hill, with two trains striking the hour and half on a gong, 2 1⁄2 in. (5.6 cm) Enamelled Roman dial signed “THARIN A PARIS”, three-tune cylinder movement with drawbar and barrel automaton control: nodding monk reading in tower room, musician nodding and tapping feet playing a lute, a bent glass rod in the fountain, a lady mending the net near the harbor wall, a ship rocking in the foreground and two others on the horizon, – In an elaborate giltwood frame with mode work d printed inside, frame 120 x 100 cm.
