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Relief showing procession of offering bearers
ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
Birds in a cage and offering bearers
ca. 680–650 B.C.
Netsuke of Bird Cage
Japan
19th century
Bird cage with hook
China
Lady in Open Window with Bird Cage
Calvert Richard Jones
late 1840s
Asta with bird cage from Actress Exhibit series (W423)
ca. 1915–30
Head of a woman facing right, bird cage in the background, from the portfolio 'Los pequeños grabadores en madera, alumnos de la Escuela Preparatoria de Jalisco' (Guadalajara, Mexico 1925).
María Marín de Orozco
ca. 1924
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1787–88
Cricket cage
China
18th–19th century
Bird peddler
Unidentified artist
late 15th–early 16th century
Child Reaching for a Caged Bird
Gabriel Huquier
ca. 1742
Textile fragment with incomplete repeating pattern of birds and bird cages
Japan
18th–19th century
The Actor Azuma Tōzō I as a Woman Carrying Two Bird Cages
Torii Kiyomitsu
1768
Lady Murasaki Sets a Bird Free from a Cage
Yashima Gakutei
19th century
Design for a Book Illustration: an Amorous Couple Beside Birds in a Cage
Anonymous, German, 19th century
19th century
Two Costume Designs or Portrait Studies. Woman with a Bird and a Woman with Binoculars
Anonymous, French, 18th century
ca. 1785–90
Le Chat Guettant L'Oiseau en Cage (The Cat Watching the Bird in the Cage), from Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre (The Light of the Cloisters), plate 10
Jacques Callot
1621–35
Panel of ornament with a bird-cage in the centre
Nicoletto da Modena
ca. 1500–1510
Cage, from the series Pictures of Wire
Vik Muniz
1995
Bird-cage cup
Chinese
1662–1722
[Women at Street Market with Caged Birds, Alicante, Spain]
Hanns Skolle
ca. 1930
Plate with Japanese court woman and birds
Japanese, for European market
1710–30
Golden Droppings
Nilima Sheikh
1997
A Brace of Full-grown Puppies: or My Dog and Me
Thomas Rowlandson
1807
Snuffbox
Jean Ducrollay
1754–55
Girl and Parrot (Ōmu to shōjo)
Kamiya Kokei
1927
Birds in Hyperspace
Clarence John Laughlin
1935
–Are you going to open the door of the cage? –Indeed.... I am going to repaint it, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"
Honoré Daumier
March 22, 1870
"Deshakar Ragini: A Prince Looking in a Mirror Tying His Turban," Folio from the dispersed "Chawand" Ragamala (Garland of Melodies)
Nasiruddin
dated 1605
Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Crickets, Grasshoppers, Cricket Cages, and Pampas Grass
Japan
early 20th century
La marchande d'amours
Oberkampf Manufactory
ca. 1816
Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes
Pierre François Drais
1774–75
Ladies on a Terrace
Ruknuddin
dated 1675
Quarter Day, or Clearing the Premises without Consulting Your Landlord
Thomas Rowlandson
1814
Visitors leaving a prison
Hubert Robert
1794–95
King of Hearts, from a Set of Piquet Cards
Claude Fayolle
late 18th–19th century
Air
Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune
18th century
Varati Ragini: folio from the Chawand Ragamala series
Nasiruddin
dated 1605
Nine Scenes from The Tale of Genji and An Aviary (Genji monogatari zu byōbu; Toriya zu byōbu)
Tosa School
early 17th century
Juan María Osorio
Augustín Esteve y Marques
ca. 1786