![A mold-formed cottage-type vase with central cartouche featuring a polychrome domestic genre scene. A woman in a pink dress, standing at left, cranks a serinette [French for "little canary"], a small barrel organ used to teach songs to canaries. The a birdcage, housing the canary, hangs above the table, upon which rests both the serinette, and a blue vase contain pink flowers. Beside the table, a grey cat sits upon a wooden chair with green upholstery. This was also the subject of a 1751 painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779) entitled "La serinette," now at the Louvre.](https://media.artsbma.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/08122653/AFI.124.2015_01_z_t.jpg)
- Titles "Cottage-Type" Vase (Descriptive)
- Artist United States Pottery Company, United States, Bennington, Vermont, About 1849-1859
- Medium porcelain with enamel glaze
- Dimensions 6 3/4 × 5 3/4 × 3 7/16 in. (17.1 × 14.6 × 8.7 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Arthur F. and Esther M. Goldberg in honor of Max and Clara Goldberg, AFI.124.2015
- Work Type vase
- Classification Containers
- Provenance Arthur F. and Esther M. Goldberg, Closter, New Jersey; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art (2015)
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