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Cage à oiseaux en forme de maison, bois laqué blanc, 1912

C'est une maison de trois étages qui s'élève ici, avec son perron à marches, sa porte ajourée, ses fenêtres rapportées sur les barreaux et ses deux cheminées. Chaque arête du bois laqué blanc est crantée en dents de scie, si bien que la lumière s'y accroche en une multitude de petits éclats. Le toit s'ouvre sur un grillage fin ; au fronton, un médaillon marqué d'un R surmonte une inscription en relief. Un tiroir se loge dans le soubassement, et le plancher brun apparaît derrière les fils.

Le XIXe siècle avait déjà donné aux cages des airs d'architecture, jusqu'à les bâtir en château miniature de bois et de fil de fer. Au début du siècle suivant, on fabrique encore en France des cages de bois peint et de fer, à l'heure où de nombreux oiseaux d'élevage gagnent l'Europe par bateau. La date de 1912 figure dans le titre de la fiche ; ni l'atelier, ni le pays, ni l'usage d'origine ne sont indiqués, et l'objet se lit d'abord par le travail patient de ses bordures.

Époque
1912
Matière
Bois laqué blanc
Style
Autre style
Dimensions
L. 85 × P. 80 × H. 42 cm ; hauteur à contrôler au regard des photographies
État
En l'état
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What rises here is a three-storey house, with its flight of steps, its pierced door, its windows applied over the bars and its two chimneys. Every edge of the white lacquered wood is notched like a saw blade, so that light catches on it in a multitude of small glints. The roof opens onto fine wire mesh; on the pediment, a medallion marked with an R sits above a line of relief lettering. A drawer is set into the base, and the brown floor shows through the wires.

The nineteenth century had already given bird cages an architectural air, going as far as building them as miniature castles in wood and wire. Early in the following century cages of painted wood and iron were still being made in France, at a time when many bred birds were reaching Europe by ship. The date 1912 appears in the listing's title; neither workshop, country nor original use is given, and the cage is read first through the patient work of its edges.

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  • Des cages à oiseaux architecturales existaient au XIXe siècle, certaines en forme de château miniature en bois et fil de fer ; au début du XXe siècle, des cages françaises en bois peint et en fer sont fabriquées. https://www.marcmaison.fr/galerie-cambo/doors/rare-cage-a-oiseaux-ancienne-en-forme-de-chateau-miniature-fin-du-xixe-siecle
  • Au début du XXe siècle, de nombreux oiseaux d'élevage arrivent en Europe par bateau. https://amicalementbirds.over-blog.com/article-25896713.html

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