Medium:

Dolls, Toys and Games | Tin, lithograph

Size:

5 1/8 x 3 3/16 x 3 7/8 in. (13.02 x 8.1 x 9.84 cm)

Style:

20th century

Physical Description:

folded aluminum bank; joints secured by tabs; in the form of a birdhouse with ref roof, back and base; perch at front acts as a coin receptacle; hand crank at right side animates a green and yellow bird which emerges from the house and using its beak, clamps on to the coin and takes in back into the house where it releases the coin; boy with fiddle and crouching boy with donkey decorate sides

Credit:

Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Gift of Katherine Kierland Herberger

Accession Number:

2003.236.438

Artist:

Lorenz Bolz Zirndorf, Nurnburg, Germany

Role:

Manufacturer

Nationality:

Nurnburg, Germany

Life Dates:

Nurnburg, Germany

Added to Site:

March 1, 2009

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5 1/8 x 3 3/16 x 3 7/8 in. (13.02 x 8.1 x 9.84 cm)