G.G.R. Swiss Snuff Box

G.G.R. Swiss Snuff Box
Gold and enamelled musical automaton box. Maker G.G.R. Swiss (Geneva), c. 1820. While the music plays, the two gardeners in the foreground clip the trees; another gardener moves across the background with a full wheelbarrow, disappears behind the pavilion (which encloses a waterfall) and emerges with the wheelbarrow empty.

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