#30

French Mechanical "Bunny in the Cabbage" by Roullet et Decamps
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$6,000
sold
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Description
11" (28 cm.) Emerging from the top of a paper mache cabbage, covered with fabric cabbage leaves, is a white fur-covered bunny with amber glass eyes, hinged ears, hinged jaw with red lips. When wound, music plays, the bunny turns side to side and his ears move up and down. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Roullet et Decamps, circa 1900. Value Points: wonderful state of preservation of the white bunny whose motions and music function well.