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Cricket Cage (possibly India)

This is a cricket cage. It is dated late 19th century and we acquired it in 1916. Its medium is ivory, silk (cord and tassel). It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled An ornate cricket cage.

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

A hand-held brisé ivory lace fan embroidered with intricate floral motifs. The fan's ivory sticks are carved with the same intricate floral motif within the lace. Within the lace, a monogram in an oval medallion at the center is flanked by diagonally-positioned pagodas on either side. Surrounding the oval medallion is an overall design of small flowering vine and birds, with a lace-like effect achieved by the carving of fine vertical lines to create a sheer ground for the solid motifs.

Brisé Fan (China)
carved ivory sticks, silk ribbon, glass stone .
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1952-161-225-a

Pleated Cabriolet Fan (France)
parchment and paper leaf, painted with gouache; pierced, painted and gilded....
Bequest of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
1931-6-114

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.

Object ID #18188777
rattan, bamboo, lacquered wood (base); fiber, paper, silk, feathers....
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-40-3-a,b

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Here we have a small cricket's cage reminiscent of a tiered building with roof. The rectangular structure's walls are made of bamboo and wire and are attached to the base, and a central, supportive wooden frame midway up, almost creating a second-floor effect. The larger bamboo pieces provide support in the four corners with two more centrally on the front and back of the second tier to support the top. The cage roof is made of three thin, wooden blocks: two larger, angled upward on the left and right to prop up the smaller, central piece. The overlapped roof is held together by four round, spherical supports located underneath the corners of the center block.The central roof also includes wires with closed hooks on its four corners above the spherical support, and a large open hook in the center, for hanging. The surface of each roof block has punctured holes where the rods and bamboo are held in place by wire, additional closed hooks out of four corners mirroring the cage's base.

Object ID #18188783
wood, bamboo, metal wire.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-40-6

Its dimensions are

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.) L (cord & tassel): 62.3 cm (24 1/2 in.)

Cite this object as

Cricket Cage (possibly India); Previously owned by Alexander Wilson Drake (American, 1843-1916); ivory, silk (cord and tassel); 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.) L (cord & tassel): 62.3 cm (24 1/2 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1916-19-103-a,b

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Accession Number 1916-19-103-a,b
Object ID 18186985