Chandelier Part, Netherlands 15th century)

Bird from the top of a chandelier, the breast is engraved with lines, the wings formerly fitting into slots. Holes for the suspension rod/chain between the wings and the legs. Weathered, losses (wings, lower part of left foot). On an early 20th century red velvet stand.
Dimensions (without stand): 12x3x8,5cm.

V&A has one and the Metropolitan Museum has two of these chandelier birds:
The Metropolitan Museum (New-York) Object Number: 64.101.1528

The Metropolitan Museum (New-York) Object Number: 64.101.1529

Victoria & Albert Museum (London) Accession Number M.6-1930

Bibliography:
Arts of the Middle Ages: A Loan Exhibition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940. no. 275, pp. 78–79.

Hackenbroch, Yvonne. Bronzes Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Irwin Untermyer Collection, Vol. 5. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962. p. 29, fig. 132, pl. 121.

Gómez-Moreno, Carmen. Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, October 30, 1968 through January 5, 1969. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. no. 113.

Gómez-Moreno, Carmen, ed. Medieval Images: A Glimpse into the Symbolism and Reality of the Middle Ages. Katonah: Katonah Museum of Art, 1978. no. 26, pp. 10, 20.

Boardman, Phillip C., Marcia Cohn Growdon, and Francis X. Hartigan, ed. Culture of the Middle Ages: A Festival of the Medieval Arts. . Reno, Nev.: Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, 1978. no. 28.

Schrader, J. L. "A Medieval Bestiary." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 44, no. 1 (Summer 1986). p. 41.