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The text traces the mid-eighteenth-century invention and development of mechanical singing-bird boxes, explaining their distinctive automata—wings moving, beak opening, head turning—and giving criteria for identifying antiques. It profiles principal makers such as Pierre Jaquet-Droz and his son, the Bruguier family, and the Rochat family, summarizes workshop practices and familial lineages, and surveys surviving examples in royal courts, museums, and private collections. Decorative materials, technical innovations, geographic distribution including Chinese imperial ownership, and the scarcity of records for lesser artisans are described, along with notable specimens and typical ornamentation.
This artist lived about at the same time as Bruguier the Father, that is from about 1750 to 1827, but the exact dates of his birth and death are uncertain.
The pieces of Bruguier du Grand Pré, are generally smaller than those of Bruguier the Father—and are considered by connoisseurs as superior. He lived in the surroundings of Geneva, and marked his pieces with his mark and a number indicating the date of manufacture.