Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Mechanical monkey orchestra, probably late 18th century, in a gilded frame with a clock

A display case in a gilded frame with a clock among bookcases, holding costumed monkey figures playing instruments in a hall with painted walls.

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

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