Bird cage: C.2649-1928

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Delft Pottery

Entities

• Bird cage

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Delftware

Description

Tin-glazed earthenware birdcage painted in blue and yellow with landscapes, and having two containers for seed and water on the outside, and inside a parrot on a perch

Buff earthenware tin-glazed and painted in blue and yellow, Circular, with six vertical shafts which rise above the top of the cage and end upwards in small castellated turrets; the bars arch inwards at the top and support a dome with a larger castellated turret in the middle. Round the base, and half-way up, are wide bands, painted in blue between the shafts with small landscapes with peasants skating and otherwise engaged, windmills, cattle and wherries.The shafts are painted with twining stems in blue and yellow. At one side is a door. Small receptacles for seeds and water, each in the form of a castellated turret painted in blue with cattle in a landscape, are inserted through openings on opposite sides of the cage. A chain hanging from the top inside supports a ring, on which is perched a uyellow and purple parrot.

Notes

History note: Mr Mossel who, with his partner, was trading under the name of ‘Simpson’ at Little Turnstile, Holborn, from whom bought in November 1900, for £15.0.0. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Early
Circa 1700 CE - 1730 CE