Music box - France - 1920-1930 - copper music box

music box (which also often serves as a jewelry box) carved in a Romantic or pastoral style. The upper decoration features a copper-engraved plaque depicting an 18th-century gallant scene, titled "Les Cerises", inspired by a classical work (in the manner of painters such as Lancret, Fragonard or Boucher, Signed / engraved "after E. Girardet". The box structure is made of richly worked brass, adorned with arabesques, floral motifs and Baroque / Louis XV relief scrolls, resting on small worked feet. The mechanism is locked: Inside, it houses a mechanical music comb that operates upon opening / via a winding mechanism located beneath the base. 13/9 cm

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