Oct 30, 2001 - Sale 1911

Sale 1911 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(AUTOMATON.) Fine automaton by Zdenka, showing a young magician standing behind a table and performing a few illusions with cards, with the cards disappearing and being replaced by others; the entire mechanism stands 20 inches tall, the mechanical figure is 8 inches tall and dressed in various colors of silk or velvet with a head from a 19th-century European porcelain doll, the figure stands on a wooden base which in turn is supported on a red velvet covered base, the entire ensemble sits beneath a flowered bower.<\t>Switzerland, contemporary