A French Bisque Musical Automaton by Roullet et Decamps; ‘Bebe Tricoteur’ c.1885-90 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage now more of a painting

now more of a painting than a mirror

This representation along with the inscribed message of ‘free all slaves’ proves a potent mix of powerful emotion and of the human condition

Brighton Museum and the William Morris Gallery

at well over five feet long

a grotesque is a fantastic or mythical figure carved from stone and fixed to the walls or roof of a building

A French Bisque Musical Automaton by Roullet et Decamps; ‘Bebe Tricoteur’ c.1885-90 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage now more of a paintingOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1885 90 Height: 15 Width: 10. 5 Depth: 10. 5 The un restored French musical automaton, the vignette arranged on a ruby red velvet covered base to a faux bamboo gilded chair, the porcelain head set with brown glass paperweight eyes, the movement functioning and when wound music plays and the girl nods her head forward and back as though examining her knitting, while her forearms twist to