Birdcages

See also “A Gothic Bird Cage” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953).

David, Bathsheba, & Nathan, Capuchin Bible (BNF Latin 16745, fol. 48), c. 1170-1180
Cats in a bestiary (Bodl. 764, fol. 51r), 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Margin, the Psalter-Hours of Yolande de Soissons (PML M.729, fol. 280r), c. 1280-1299
Blackbird singing in a cage, Bestiaire d’Amours (BNF Fr. 1951, fol. 9), 13th-14th C
Blackbird singing in a cage, Bestiaire d’Amours (BNF Fr. 12469, fol. 7r), 13th-14th C
Fable: The two parrots and the wife of the satrap, Kalila va Dimna (BNF Latin 8504, fol 56v), 1313
Decoys in birdcages in fols. 42r and 51r, psalter (Douce 6), c. 1320-1330
Blackbird singing in a cage, Bestiaire d’Amours (BNF Fr. 15213, fol. 71v), second quarter of the 14th C

The calandra lark sings in a cage (fol. 144) and a young woman watches a parrot in a cage (fol. 332), Concordantiae caritatis (SBL cod. 151), c. 1349-1351 
Blackbird singing in a cage, Bestiaire d’Amours (BNF Fr. 1444, fol. 259v), second half of the 14th century 
Pine nuts, Tacuinum Sanitatis (Codex Vindobonensis series nova 2644, fol. 19), c. 1370-1400
A hawk in a cage in a treatise on falconry (British Library Egerton 2347, fol. 5v), last quarter of the 14th century 
Pine nuts, Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333, fol. 17r), 15th century 
Bird-hunting, The Books of Modus and Ratio (BNF Fr. 1297, fol. 87r), first quarter of the 15th century 
Border, the Hours of Marguerite d’Orléans (BNF Latin 1156 B, fol. 15r), 1430
Hope, a book of hours (PML M.359, fol. 116v), c. 1430-1435
Border, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.917, fol. 247), c. 1440
Tournament book recording jousts in Nuremburg from 1446 to 1561
St. Eligius in his Workshop, c. 1450
A birdcage from the studiolo panels for the ducal palace of Federico da Montefeltro, c. 1470-1480
A pewter bird seed pot found in London, made in the late 15th century
A birdcage (Met 52.121.1) from the 15th or 16th century
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1503-1505
The Bellows-Repairer by Hieronymus Bosch; also a copy attributed to Cornelis Massijs
Donor with a birdcage by Matthias Grünewal
January (fol. 2v) and St. Mark (fol. 119v), the Da Costa Hours (PML M.399), c. 1515

Brothel Scene with Prostitutes Fighting each Other (Gemäldegalerie ). ca. 1530 

Detail from an altarpiece with scenes from the life of the Virgin by Jan van Coninxloo II, c. 1541-1560
Extraction of the Stone of Folly, c. 1550; see also this analysis of a similar work 
Christ Driving the Merchants from the Temple by Leandro Bassano, c. 1557-1600
Peasants by the Hearth by Pieter Aertsen, 1560s
A boy with a birdcage by Abraham Bloemaert, 1566 
Bird cage troughs, feeders, and bird baths found in England, thought to date from the 15th, 16th, or 17th century: BERK-0FEA63, BERK-D3E031, BH-1A17F3, BH-85CE02, BH-85F197, BH-894AF1, CORN-11D2F5, CORN-20E523, CORN-B5BEE5, ESS-7EB9E5, ESS-885BB3, KENT-3A4337, LON-216584, LON-2E4963, LON-7234D6, LON-FCA573, LVPL-8505F1, LVPL-E9C366, LVPL-FA4145, NARC-147CC5, NARC-A80104, NARC-5C78F2, SF-804FF7, SOM-7FDDD5, SOMDOR-ACB916, SUR-150555, SUR-938431 SUR-E95085, SUR-F2EC81, SUSS-08D3B7, SUSS-15DB14, SUSS-1F8ED6, SUSS-BA59D2, SUSS-E106A7, WMID-14F504, etc. See also Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition: Tudor and Stuart Period Finds c. 1450-c. 1700 from Excavations at Riverside Sites in Southwark for a related example.
The Four Elements: Air by Maarten de Vos  
Detail from a cycle with the ancient gods in a grotesque style by Heinrich Göding the Elder