Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2314Location: BoltonDate / Time: November 03, 2005 10:00AM
Description:
Automaton of a Carousel by Renou, with four bisque-headed passengers in original costumes (two girls, two boys) riding wicker gondolas suspended from papier-mache airships, on revolving pole with candystripe canopy trimmed with pressed-brass cornice, metal-thread braid and glass baubles, on circular base containing the going-barrel movement playing one air, on red-painted bun feet, ht. 18 in.
Estimate $4,000-6,000