Phalibois木偶音乐盒Tänzer auf Stuhl

With paper-mâché character head, smiling mouth, red mohair wig, brown glass eyes with articulated "dancing" eyelids, body articulated at the elbows, hips and knees, going-barrel movement in the chair base driving seven wood cams and twin sublime harmony cylinder movements playing two airs in "stereo", in original black satin tailcoat, breeches and leather shoes, height 37 ½ in. (95 cm), with key. The dancer looks from side to side, winks each eye in turn, moves his arms in and out as though clapping, raises each leg alternately and kicks delicately from the knee, then straightens out before returning his foot to the chair.
– Literature: Pictured in Bailly, "Automata, the Golden Age", pp. 167, 223. Bailly describes the arrangement of the two identical cylinders as a great rarity in automata and suggests that this movement was probably the result of a special order.
– This is the only example that we have seen to date. A large and impressive piece reminiscent of the French cabaret, with an unique form of musical accompaniment.