See also “A Gothic Bird Cage” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1953).
- David, Bathsheba, and 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 century
- Blackbird singing in a cage, Bestiaire d’Amours (BNF Fr. 12469, fol. 7), 13th-14th century
- 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 century
- The calandra lark sings in a cage (fol. 71v) and a young woman watches a parrot in a cage (fol. 165v), 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. 17), 15th century
- Bird-hunting, The Books of Modus and Ratio (BNF Fr. 1297, fol. 87), first quarter of the 15th century
- Border, the Hours of Marguerite d’Orléans (BNF Latin 1156 B, fol. 15), 1430
- Hope, a book of hours (PML M.359, fol. 116v), c. 1430-1435
- Massacre of the Innocents, the Book of Hours of Queen Eléonore, 15th century
- 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
- Detail from The Annunciation, c. 1465-1475
- Detail from The Annunciation, c. 1469-1480
- A birdcage from the studiolo panels for the ducal palace of Federico da Montefeltro, c. 1470-1480
- Detail from The Annunciation, 1475-1485
- 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 Grünewald
- January (fol. 2v) and St. Mark (fol. 119v), the Da Costa Hours (PML M.399), c. 1515
- Tavern scene by the Brunswick Monogrammist, c. 1535-1540
- 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
- Radha awakened by the sleeping servants, (BNF Smith-Lesouëf (oriental) 249, fol. 6543), end of the 16th century
- 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
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