A Swiss Silver and Enamelled Singing Bird Box, London import marks for HCF Ld, London 1928, of br

A Swiss Silver and Enamelled Singing Bird Box, London import marks for HCF Ld, London 1928, of bracketed rectangular outline, the plateau centred by the hinged oval lid painted with two lovers and a shepherdess with sheep and a dog in a woodland glade in the manner of Antoine Watteau, within a border of two pierrots wooing a young woman in a country house garden, the musical mechanism releasing the lid to reveal a scroll pierced base plate and a solitary automata bird with iridescent feather plumage, with chevron engine turned guilloche blue enamel canted angles, with chain pull, each of the sides centred by a Watteauesque panel, upon slightly inswept short feet (the underside with bird-form brass key compartment), 105cm by 7.6cm by 6.1cm