When inactive, the bird is concealed behind a round medallion decorated by a woman with bird after Boucher. It is thus later than the death of Pierre Jaquet-Droz in 1790 and of his son in 1791 and was possibly executed under a franchise from Leschot. This 19.4 cm high timepiece was made by Georges Rémond et Cie in Geneva, with components dated 17. Please watch the video shared by the auction house. It is luxurious with a nice blue enamel, gold and pearls but without gems. On May 11, 2019, Antiquorum sold for CHF 1.02M a clock similarly designed but including some refinements, lot 35 here linked on the Invaluable bidding platform. The rich gilded and enameled decoration is set with pearls and various gems. On the rear of the amphora, the canary moves behind a round glass pane when a button is activated on a side of the piece. One of these two timepieces, 16 cm high, was sold for $ 2.53M by Sotheby's in 2015. In 1787 the company Jaquet-Droz et Leschot sold two identical flacons to James Cox, the London watchmaker who also acted as an intermediary for the Chinese market. The vertical structures take the form of a scent amphora decorated with the greatest luxury. In two subsequent phases of miniaturization, they appear in vertical cases before popping from snuffboxes through an opening in the flat lid. Its invention is attributed to Frisard working for the company of Jaquet-Droz and Leschot in Geneva. The insertion of the singing bird into a clock is a technical feat of mechanical miniaturization, both for the realistic movement of the bird and for the sound produced by a tiny serinette. It had been sold to Cox in 1787, certainly for the Chinese market. The size of the bird, 12 mm high, demonstrates the extreme miniaturization achieved by Jaquet-Droz at the time of Frisard. This piece 16 cm high has the shape of a scent flask with its stopper and also incorporates a watch, as it was often the case in this range of products. On June 11, 2015, Sotheby's sold for $ 2.53M from a lower estimate if $ 800K a sumptuous automaton with an articulated singing bird made by Jaquet-Droz, Leschot and Frisard circa 1786, lot 104. From London, the clever entrepreneur James Cox maintains trade relations with the Far East. The Chinese imperial court is interested in these innovations. Success invites for the diversification of models and the integration of these mechanisms in enamelled goldware of highest luxury. The trend to miniaturization increases and Frisard invents around 1784 the box that throws out the songbird at opening and folds it back at closing. In the middle of the next decade, Pierre Jaquet-Droz is associated with his son Henri-Louis and with Jean-Frédéric Leschot and engages the best mechanicians of Geneva including Henri Maillardet and Jacob Frisard. Six pipes are enough to provide the illusion of a high variety. The song of the bird is obtained by a miniature mechanical organ named serinette with a unique note per pipe. His workshop started in the 1770s the theme of the bird cage that will deserve a great success. Pierre Jaquet-Droz engineered automata in a very high complexity that could include hundreds of mechanical components.
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