cricket cage
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular cage (a) with turned corner posts terminating in pointed finials at top, ball feet; pierced gallery around top edges; hinged door at one side; rectangular, partitioned 'food trough' in cage, next to door; two red and orange ivory birds sit on flat green perch suspended in cage. Orange silk cord attached to ring at top of cage, and decorated with orange and black tassel, flat ivory bird (b), and knotted green bands near tassel.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Japan
label: possibly made in
content: India
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1916-19-103-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: cricket cage
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ivory, silk (cord and tassel)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (cage): 5 x 2.9 x 4 cm (1 15/16 x 1 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L (cord & tassel): 62.3 cm (24 1/2 in.)