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"Verdino" Birdcage

This is a birdcage. It was designed by Charles Lin Tissot. It is dated ca. 1959 and we acquired it in 1965. Its medium is glass, brass, plexiglass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This object was donated by Göran F. Holmquist. It is credited Gift of Göran F. Holmquist.

Model 3461 Vase
hand-molded glass set with fire-joined turquoise canes (mezza filigrana),....
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt,....
2013-11-1

A page dated June 29, 1954 by R. B. Fuller building construction. Figure 1 lies to the left of a grid hemisphere with number notations, 20, 21, 22, 25. Below is a gridded sphere with number notations 20, 21, 22, 25 with Figure 2 to the bottom left. Text typed slightly over sphere with Inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller.

Book Illustration, Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic Dome Construction, figure 1...
quadrat print.
Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 68 x 61 x 59cm (26 3/4 x 24 x 23 1/4in.)

Cite this object as

"Verdino" Birdcage; Designed by Charles Lin Tissot (American, 1904 - 1994); Italy; glass, brass, plexiglass; H x W x D: 68 x 61 x 59cm (26 3/4 x 24 x 23 1/4in.); Gift of Göran F. Holmquist; 1965-50-1-a/tt

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CzmX/
Accession Number 1965-50-1-a/tt
Object ID 18452755