Spinning wheel with a bird organ

Special order made around 1760

These miniature spinning wheels, known as salon spinners, were particularly appreciated by quality ladies throughout Europe. Every successful young woman had to know how to spin, and these objects were as much utilitarian as decorative.
Some of them were designed to be placed on the knees, while others took place on small flying tables; they were of course intended to spin silk or linen.
The one presented here includes a serinette to learn how to sing to the serins of the Canary Islands.

In a remarkable state of preservation. Cylinder of six tunes with the change of melodies by a limaçon, as in the cartels of the following century.

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