Scène Mécanique Shipping Automaton

Description:

Scène Mécanique Shipping Automaton, with windmill and two cottages on cliff above a painted tissue paper sea with French three-masted vessel, the pull-string cylinder movement playing one air and causing the sails to turn and the ship to heave on rolling waves, on ebonized base under glass dome with painted seascape, ht. 13 1/2 in., (old repair at the back of dome).
Estimate $1,200-1,500