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Description
21" (53 cm.) h. 18"l. Arranged on a paper mache mossy ground is a beautifully-composed village scene, featuring a cottage with hand-painted details surmounted by a windmill and fronted by a waterwheel, and a tinplate well and pump in the yard which is tended by an all-bisque doll; animals and shrubs populate the yard. When wound, music plays, the windmill and the waterwheel turn, the little girl moves her arm up and down as though pumping water, and the glass spiral "water" twirls as though water is pouring from the pump. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism and music function well. Comments: French, circa 1885. Value Points: appealing rustic scene with artistic detail of background, four simultaneous realistic movements, fine music.