Karl Griesbaum, Triberg, Germany, 109 x 76 x 57 mm, 459 g, circa 1940

A very fine silver enamel singing bird box in the shape of a small baroque chest of drawers "The gift" with original winding key
Case: silver, rectangular, the top and sides engine-turned and translucent cobalt blue enamelled, engraved silver mountings; top with an oval silver enamel lid multi-coloured painted with a pastoral scene. Automaton mechanism: rectangular, full-plate, bellows, bird with moving wings and tail in front of a pierced and engraved brass plate.