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Description
22" (56 cm.) Perched upon a painted wooden
ladderback chair,his left leg crossed,and
clutching a wooden lute,is a clown with
paper-mache head,open mouth with tongue,brown
glass paperweight eyes,and classic two-color clown
wig. His original complexion is painted white with
clown decorations. He has bisque hands (right
forefinger restored) and is dressed in silk rich
costume. The chair is arranged upon a
velvet-covered wooden base with tassel trim.
Movement and Music. Posed nonchalantly,the clown
casually turns his head side-to-side,and then
bends at the waist,leaning forward as he strums
the lute. He lifts his left leg to cross his right
leg,and in a saucy gesture,sticks out his tongue
in mockery at his audience. There are two
tunes,one being "Das Rheingold" according to
remnants of the original paper tune label. Leopold
Lambert,circa 1895. The automaton was illustrated
in the original Lambert catalog as model #44 as
"Clown sur Chaise".