Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Square wooden box-type cage (a) cut on each side with fan-shaped opening inset with metal wires; quarter columns at corners; bun feet; gallery along top, decorated with circular cutouts and ball finials at corners; stamped gilt-metal decorations at fan-shapes and capitals and bases of columns. On top of box, cradled in large circular hole with flange, is a globular fishbowl (b) with circular neck and central hollow globe, all formed from single wall (allowing bird entry/egress from and to wooden cage below). Base of bowl decorated with polychrome enamel band of landscape / water scenes showing European men hunting birds or fishing (retrieving birds?) from boats / sailing ships at sea (one flying two red, white and blue Dutch flags), and a rocky island with a tall castle-like building on top; floral decoration just below neck, gilded foliate decoration on neck and band at mouth.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Channing Hare
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1971-7-1-a/d
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- containers
- Decorative Arts
- Birdcage with fishbowl
- Medium
- Sycamore-inlaid fruitwood and fruitwood veneered wood, carved gilt wood, blown enamel-painted and gilt-decorated glass, cast brass, stamped gilt metal, metal wire
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (a & b): 62.2 x 31.8 x 31.8 cm (24 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
- made in
- Netherlands
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1971-7-1-a_d
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e16e0572-a88f-4435-a672-b1ba15d332a8
