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.

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1913	Work on this object ended.
1916	We acquired this object.
2005	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2017	We exhibited this object.
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Cricket Cage (Italy)

This is a cricket cage. It is dated ca. 1903 and we acquired it in 1916. Its medium is wood, bamboo, metal wire. 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.

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

Cricket Cage (Italy)
wood, metal wire.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-40-12

Tile Tile
earthenware, glaze.
Museum purchase from the Misses Hewitt Fund.
1937-62-8

Its dimensions are

H x W x D (hook at top extended vertically): 14.6 x 7.2 x 4.6 cm (5 3/4 x 2 13/16 x 1 13/16 in.) H x W x D (without hook): 9.1 x 7.2 x 4.6 cm (3 9/16 x 2 13/16 x 1 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Penciled on underside of cage: "Cricket cage for Ascension Day--1903 / Florence, Italy"

Cite this object as

Cricket Cage (Italy); wood, bamboo, metal wire; H x W x D (hook at top extended vertically): 14.6 x 7.2 x 4.6 cm (5 3/4 x 2 13/16 x 1 13/16 in.) H x W x D (without hook): 9.1 x 7.2 x 4.6 cm (3 9/16 x 2 13/16 x 1 13/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1916-40-6

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

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2BdTH/
Accession Number 1916-40-6
Object ID 18188783