musical box

Woo hammers the loss with a deliberateness that feels desperate: oppressive blue gloom, a slumping Christmas tree with unopened presents, a twinkly musical box that evokes sadness.

Britain's government sent Queen Elizabeth a specially-commissioned musical box to mark her platinum jubilee, depicting on its lid the black front door of the Prime Minister's Number 10 Downing Street office.

The platinum mounted, enamel-on-copper musical box also featured portraits of the 14 British prime ministers she has met during her reign.

As far as they were concerned, clocks were merely delightful but useless luxury objects—rather like musical boxes.

"Self-evidently it's not in the same league as, say, Hamilton but this jukebox musical boxes clever within its tight parameters."