Ancient automaton, representing Mozart composing, with music box (Papagello aria from The Magic Flute)

Dimensions:

height 34 cm, depth 24 cm, width 18 cm, key movement, the head turns and the arms rise together, then separately according to the melody

Clothing is in fact particularly neat in terms of the lace on his bib and his wig.

Beautiful Mozart in excellent condition and working order and as you can see with high quality velvet clothing.

Charming collector's item from a house specializing in the manufacture of automatons. The best known were Léopold Lambert, Renou, Gustave Vichy, Decamps,, to be determined, I have not opened the mechanism

Biscuit head, blue sulfur eyes, slightly open mouth like in the Jumeau dolls