Attributed to Leopold Lambert, a girl with yarn and cat automaton, the brown eyed, blond haired figure with bisque head, sleep eyes, pierced ears, and wearing a colorful silk dress, her left hand holding a basket with scissors, yarn, and needlework in progress, her right with dangling ball of yarn, a cold painted bronze or iron cat at her feet watching the ball, and occasionally making a sudden movement toward it, all on a red velvet covered rectangular base concealing the movement with single tune music box, with "LB" winding key, movements include head nodding and turning left and right, blinking eyes, the left arm raised and lowered from the shoulder, the right raised and lowered from the elbow, and the cat slowly moving toward the front edge of the base, and then quickly moving back toward the figure

working well, dress with minor deterioration and splits, right shoulder worn through where the mechanism contacts the fabric, velvet on base worn ACCESSORIES: Base, Winding Key,

23 x 9 x 12 in