Birdcage
date: label: Date
content: 1735–96 and 1880–1910
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Hanging type, circular dome shape with tall finial, silver hanger.
label: Description
content: Components:
label: Description
content: 1 cage
label: Description
content: 1 beaded ring
label: Description
content: 4 water bowls
label: Description
content: 1 cylindrical feeder
label: Description
content: 1 mini birdcage
label: Description
content: 1 coral feeder
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content: 2 hanging rings
label: Description
content: 2 perches
label: Description
content: 1 ivory ornament with metal bugs
label: Description
content: 2 jade clips
label: Description
content: 3 ivory clips
label: Description
content: 1 ivory stick
place: label: made in
content: China
setName: label: See more items in
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 Thomas F. Ryan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1916-26-1-a/jj
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Birdcage
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lacquered wood with inlaid bone,ivory, and ebony (base); carved and cut ivory, carved wood, carved jade, carved amber, cloisonné enamel, glazed porcelain
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (a): 56.5 x 33 cm (22 1/4 x 13 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b): 6.5 x 33 cm (2 9/16 x 13 in.)