Be careful of those red numbers. They are likely overpaint and easily washed away.
I can't say that this looks Chinese inspired to me. Maybe India? Also the gold has an odd look to it, crumpled.
I can see them as candleholders. Are they an appropriate size?
It looks amateurish to me. Very heavy handed at the least. I suspect it's a hodgepodge of bits from golden age paintings. The house might be...
Excellent video.
I can't find results for either of those automata sales online. I can't find the estimates for the snuff box, but the high estimate on the...
In turnabout-is-fair-play, here are a couple of European automata made for the Chinese market: [MEDIA]
Prices can reach millions for something you could put in your pocket and hardly make a bulge. This 19thC one made GBP140,000 in 2013: [ATTACH]
My heart was going pit-a-pat.
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