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
• 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