This wooden structure is taller than it is wide, with light brown wood comprising the cage part and black lacquered wood base on bottom. The cage walls are made up of thin, round, uniformly spaced rods, closely arranged. The base frame is made of four rectangular bars: two parallel bars laid on top of two more parallel bars, in the opposing direction, making a square base. This arrangement is repeated twice again in the middle for support, using slightly smaller pieces of wood to hold up the thin rods of the cage walls. Between the middle frames is a concealed door, only indicated by a short horizontal wood handle running across the lower of the two central supports. The top frame is made in the same four bar placement except for additional bar running through center. The entire structure is attached to black lacquered wood base made of a simple square on top of curved legs, angled outward at each corner.

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Cricket Cage And Base (Japan), late 19th century

This is a cricket cage and base. It is dated late 19th century and we acquired it in 1916. Its medium is rattan, bamboo, lacquered wood (base); fiber, paper, silk, feathers (imitation insects). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

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ivory, silk (cord and tassel).
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-19-103-a,b

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NATURE.020

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installation, specimen display, book.
Courtesy of mischer'traxler Studio.
NATURE.001

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 10.5 x 5.6 x 4.6 cm (4 1/8 x 2 3/16 x 1 13/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Cricket Cage And Base (Japan), late 19th century; rattan, bamboo, lacquered wood (base); fiber, paper, silk, feathers (imitation insects); H x W x D: 10.5 x 5.6 x 4.6 cm (4 1/8 x 2 3/16 x 1 13/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1916-40-3-a,b

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Virtue in Vice.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2BdTB/
Accession Number 1916-40-3-a,b
Object ID 18188777