Christmas decoration
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, papier mache, cotton wool and moss
Measurements
25 mm (Height); 45 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 938725.4
Summary
One of a collection of birds' nests, each made from a papier mache body (?) covered in moss held in place by very fine metal wire and containing three cotton wool birds' eggs. (b) also has the remains of string which may have been used to attach it to something else; (c) has lost most of its eggs; (d) has lost all of its eggs.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).