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# Mechanical monkey orchestra, probably late 18th century, in a gilded frame with a clock
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/nichego-osobogo-prosto-obezianii-orkestr-kontsa-xviii-veka-predpolozhitelno-khotia-rospisi-na-potolke-i-kandeliabry-otsylaiut-k-istorizmu-xix-veka/
- Published: 2021-02-22T13:17:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:07:08.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Art, Museums, Humour

Nothing special, just a monkey orchestra, supposedly of the late eighteenth century, though the ceiling paintings and candelabra point to the historicism of the nineteenth. The mechanism, alas, is broken