[AUTOMATON]. Peasant and ?Baby" Piglet. Paris: Vichy, ca. 1900. Musical mechanical automaton, a peasant sitting on a chair with a rucksack tied at the side, holding a piglet in his lap, taunting him with food held in his hand. The figure has an expressive plaster-composition head, glass eyes, articulated mouth, felt hat, and wig. With an embroidered satin, silk, and velvet costume, he holds a carved and painted piglet with glass eyes and protruding tongue. The peasant turns his head and nods, shrugs his upper body, and shakes his right leg, lowers the morsel to the piglet's mouth, and the piglet turns its head toward the food and sticks its tongue out, as a melody plays. Minor chipping to the piglet's head and peasant's left hand, otherwise fine. Complex machine. Tested, functional. Third-party shipping required. 32 x 12 x 9".