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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
The Academy: Bird Cage
Angela Bing Jansen
1973
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
313. the Mammoth Bird Cage
Unknown
1860s–80s
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1787–88
335. The Happy Family in Mammoth Bird Cage
Truman Ward Ingersoll
1904
Cricket cage
China
18th–19th century
"Ruba Rombic" Vase
Reuben Haley
1928
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
Woman in an evening gown looking at a bird in a cage
Clarence Frederick Underwood
1895–1910
Two Costume Designs or Portrait Studies. Woman with a Bird and a Woman with Binoculars
Anonymous, French, 18th century
ca. 1785–90
Catalogue of Birds, Cages, Seeds, etc.
George H. Holden
1878
A road through mountains (recto); A bird in a cage and a mountain (verso)
Herbert E. Crowley
1902–36
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
Catalogue of Bird Cages
O. Lindemann & Co.
1883
Mise-en-carte and Sample for Velours Miniature with Birds, Bird Cages, and Thin Garlands and Bundles of Flowers and Leaves
Anonymous, French, 18th century
ca. 1775–1800

Girl and Parrot (Ōmu to shōjo)

Kamiya Kokei
1927
Birds in Hyperspace
Clarence John Laughlin
1935
Woman Holding a Bird Cage in her Left Hand and a Stick with Two Perched Yellow Birds in her Right, from the French Novelties series (N110) to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco manufactured by W. Duke Sons & Co.
W. Duke, Sons & Co.
1892
Thread and pull tab mechanisms: elegant woman with bird in cage, handsome man appears.
Anton Berka
ca. 1815
Le Chat Guettant L'Oiseau en Cage (The Cat Watching the Bird in the Cage), plate 10 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)
Jacques Callot
1646
The Circumcision of Christ, at lower right two putti, one holding a bird above a cage, the other a ewer on a platter
Bartolomeo Biscaino
1650–57