This special brass music bowl was donated by Mr. C.J. van de Putte, secretary and treasurer of the Residentie Orkest board in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mrs. N. van Tussenbroek. It concerns a work of art by Gerard Bakker created in 1980-1981. This artist from Gouda is also known for, among other things, the Fishermen's Monument in Scheveningen.

The donors at the time commissioned the bowl in tribute to the compositions of the befriended French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). C.J. van de Putte had become fascinated by Messiaen's musical descriptions of birds and even went south of Grenoble in search of an owl sung by Messiaen. The composer lived nearby but did not appear to be at home. Later a friendly correspondence developed between Messiaen and Wassenaar, the hometown of both donors. In 1981, several chamber works and all of Messiaen's orchestral works were performed, including by the Residentie Orkest and in the presence of the composer. This bowl was then exhibited at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague, on the occasion of which Messiaen placed his signature on it, which was later engraved.

The slightly curved copper bowl about a meter and a half in diameter, hammered from a flat copper plate, features part of a composition by Messiaen: the sixth Haiku(Les oiseaux de Karuizawa) from his composition Sept Haikai (1962). Messiaen chose this Haiku himself because one of the instruments in this work was a gong, and he suspected that the scale, through the hammering, would create a gong-like sound.

The bowl has hung in the artist foyer of the Zuiderstrand Theater since 2016. At the end of 2022, the bowl found a permanent place in Amare, near the Concert Hall of the Residentie Orkest.