Musical automaton made by Lambert around 1890:
"Chinese woman serving tea"

Musical automaton made of porcelain with 5 movements

Description of this musical automaton:

Beautiful musical automaton by Lambert (winding key marked "LB") made around 1890 depicting a chinese woman holding a tray with a tea service and pouring tea.

This automaton, with a rare bisque porcelain head made by Jumeau and of asian type, has beautiful clothes (some wears at the bottom of the kimono at the back of the character) and a mohair wig.

Very good original condition (some lack of fabric on one sleeve and on the back of the kimono) and movements of the head and both arms (two movements of the head, two movements of the right arm and movement of the left arm which holds the tea service tray.

Technical details of this musical automaton:

Dimensions of this Lambert musical automaton: 60 cm.

Melodies of this Lambert musical automaton: two asian tunes (the name of each melody is inscribed on the base).

Item# of this Lambert musical automaton: AUTOMATE-67.