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Church Birdcage
This is a Birdcage. It is dated mid-19th century and we acquired it in 1916. Its medium is turned, cut, and stained mahogany, cherry, pine, cut brass, wire, enamel-painted metal. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Bird cage
United States, mid-nineteenth century
Wood, brass, wire
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1916-19-83a,b
Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt acquired a collection of birdcages that they put on display in the original Museum in lower Manhattan. Many are architectural in shape and provide an index of fanciful and realistic building types-from bridges to Swiss chalets to chapels. This particular example was built as a replica of a church in Flushing, New York, which was later torn down, leaving the birdcage as a reminder of the building.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Birdcage In The Form Of A Church.
This object was
donated by
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- Print, Design for a Clock, plate 4, from Nouveaux livre de boites de...
- etching printed in red ink on paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-352-77
- Print, Ornament Panel with Bird Cage
- engraving on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1946-29-3
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 79 × 38 × 75.5 cm (31 1/8 × 14 15/16 × 29 3/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Church Birdcage; USA; turned, cut, and stained mahogany, cherry, pine, cut brass, wire, enamel-painted metal; H x W x D: 79 × 38 × 75.5 cm (31 1/8 × 14 15/16 × 29 3/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1916-19-83-a,b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
