Bird in a Cage
- Date:
- 1880-1890
- Medium:
- Color woodcut on paper (octagonal album sheet, black line block with color blocks)
- Source:
- Rijksmuseum
Description
A crested bird with a black, white, and buff-brown head and mottled gray-brown wings perches inside a green cage rendered as an overlaid star-and-hexagon lattice pattern; beneath it sits a small blue vessel with a tan lid or handle. A vertical crimson band with a tasseled knot at the top crosses the center of the octagonal sheet, dividing the pale green ground in two, with the artist's signature and red seal at lower right. Octagonal album leaf, color woodcut on paper, by Shibata Shinsai, 1885.
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Bird in a Cage was created by Shibata Shinsai (柴田真斎) in 1880-1890.
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