A 19TH CENTURY SWISS QUALITE EXCELSIOR ‘PIERROT MANDOLIN PLAYER’ AUTOMATON

in the manner of Gustave Vichy or Leopold Lambert, the figure with coloured hair, face painted with card suits and wearing bright clothes, modelled seated on a painted stool, on carpet covered plinth base, the plinth with label worded ‘Estudiantina Valse / Tout a le joie, Polka’, 57cm high