Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,434 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,191 of them are available online. There are 1,867 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Sleek silver vessel with a curved body atop three pointed legs, featuring a black handle with a spiral detail and sharp ends which stretch above the vessel's top.

John Prip

Bird Pitcher

Erin Rosenthal

Arrival of Ancient & Future in a City of Disguises (the Bird is NOW!)

Luis Seoane

Reptilian Bird of the Alchemists

Unknown Maker, Chinese

bird figure, Tang

Kawamura Kihō

Kihō’s Sketchbook (Kihō gafu), Edo (Japanese period)

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Dead Bird

Thomas Bewick

HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS Vol I

Unknown Maker, Iranian

Bird

Katsushika Isai

Miniature drawings of birds flowers and landscapes:Vol. I, Edo (Japanese period)

Weathered, blue wallpaper with repeating motifs of white doves next to white ribboned pink and white flower bouquets and in blotchy textured black trees.

Unknown Maker, French

Birds and Flowers Wallpaper

Brown wallpaper with repeating motifs of large multicolored flower bouquets, gray and orange birds, and smaller pink flower bouquets repeated overtop tiny light brown leaves on thin vines throughout.

Unknown Maker, French

Birds and Flowers Wallpaper

Ripped and weathered, cream painting of two large multicolored birds chained by the neck to a metal, fruit filled, vase on top of a three-legged pedestal.

Etienne de Lavallée

Captive Birds Wallpaper

Panel of elegant vintage wallpaper featuring a richly colored central arrangement of exotic birds and flowers interspersed with smaller floral clusters on a faded canvas

Unknown Maker, French

Flowers and Birds Wallpaper

Unknown Maker, Burmese

Bowl with Birds and Floral Designs

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Silver pheasants (Hakukan), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Falcon (Yokin), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Yellow bird and wisteria (Fuji ni kicho), Edo (Japanese period)

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Cranes and young pines (Komatsu ni tsuru), Edo Period

Eishosai Choki

Small bird and roses (Bara ni kotori), Edo Period

Mori Ransai

Complete illustration of a magpie in a tree, Edo (Japanese period)