Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird art school painting dark wood frame

dark wood frame

This is a wonderful set of 9 vintage Burmese lacquer coasters with very fine incised decoration

shows some spotting

after the wind blew away the chaff

Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird art school painting dark wood frameI had two of these previously, which quickly sold, and was happy to find another, as I think these are amazing. I think this was most likely part of a singing bird cage or cuckoo clock or something similar, where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger the wings to raise and beaks to open perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp! One could just stick it in a little vase or small planter, to hover over a succulent, say. It's a fairly