Lot 65

A Rare Sparrow Nesting Pot: Winter/Spring Food Supplement (as illustrated by Hogarth). The globular red clay box with an applied spout aperture to the back for access, a simple white slip glazed finial and a cut out base pierced with hanging hole, 7½ in (19 cm) in height. [Ceramic bird boxes are recorded on archaeological sites from the medieval period, and one is illustrated by Hogarth in one of his street scene engravings (Samuel Butlers Hudibras Plate 2 Sr. Hudibras, his passing Worth]

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A Rare Sparrow Nesting Pot: Winter/Spring Food Supplement (as illustrated by Hogarth). The globular red clay box with an applied spout aperture to the back for access, a simple white slip glazed finial and a cut out base pierced with hanging hole, 7½ in (19 cm) in height. [Ceramic bird boxes are recorded on archaeological sites from the medieval period, and one is illustrated by Hogarth in one of his street scene engravings (Samuel Butlers Hudibras Plate 2 Sr. Hudibras, his passing Worth]