A rare Gustave Vichy automaton of a Moroccan Harpist, with papier-mâché head, brown glass eyes, papier-mâché body with crossed legs and arms on wires, remains of original costume including dark red jacket with puffed sleeves, fez and slippers, seated on Moorish octagonal base with stained decoration, when wound he moves head from side to side, nods and plucks harp —30 ¼in. (77cm.) high (damage and wear, eye mechanism not operative, replacement or refurbished harp) - see Bailly, Automata, the Golden Age, pp. 72 and 237.