$2,000
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Description
21" (53 cm.) h. 18"l. Arranged on an ebony black base with glass dome, is a paper mache mossy ground, a cottage with hand-painted details surmounted by a windmill and fronted by a waterwheel, along with a tinplate well and pump, and animals and shrubs populate the yard. When wound, music plays, the windmill and the waterwheel turn, and the glass spiral "water" twirls as though water is pouring from the pump. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism and music function well. French, circa 1885. Sold as is.