Shiny Red Songbird Christmas ornament from Merck Family's Old World Christmas. Brilliantly handpainted red cardinal bird with gold glittering and red tailfeathers, made of mouth blown glass.
Birds are symbols of happiness and joy, and so they are regarded as a necessity on the Christmas Tree. Glassblowers often kept wild birds during the winter months since the sound of the gas flame in the workshop prompted the birds to sing. Then when spring arrived the birds returned to freedom.
