Glass bottle shaped like a bird
Translucent pale blue green.Cylindrical neck, flaring at top and merging at bottom with rounded, stylized body of a bird, tapering to form tail; pushed-in bottom.Broken and repaired, with rim and top of neck mi... more
Anthropomorphic Bird Figure
Colombia or Ecuador
Bird Jar
Peru
Bird Pendant
Tropical Costa Rica is the habitat of an enormous number of bird species, many of which acquired symbolic dimensions in depictions in stone. This pendant, made of a jadeite of great clarity, features a toucan. ... more
Temple with Bird
Mexico, Mesoamerica, Guerrero
Glass bottle in the shape of a bird
Translucent blue.Trefoil, slightly thickened and rounded rim, turned to one side from body; long neck, expanding downwards, that merges with horizontal ovoid body, drawn out at back into a long, thin tail with ... more
Glass bottle in the shape of a bird
Translucent pale blue green.Long, solid, rounded beak; head projecting forward and slightly downward, attached to tubular neck that merges with plump body.Broken, with back part of body and tail missing; few bu... more
Bird Ornament
Compared to the large quantities of spectacular metal objects found in lavish elite burials of Peru's Moche people, the tombs of the contemporary Nazca people of the south have yielded few gold objects. Usually... more
Two Bird Ornaments
Compared to the large quantities of spectacular metal objects found in lavish elite burials of Peru's Moche people, the tombs of the contemporary Nazca people of the south have yielded few gold objects. Usually... more
Glass bottle shaped like a bird
Colorless with blue green tinge.Everted, possibly trefoil, rim; cylindrical neck, expanding to merge with ovoid body, drawn out at back to form stylized tail, rounded on top and pinched in below; pushed-in bott... more
Bird Ornament
Compared to the large quantities of spectacular metal objects found in lavish elite burials of Peru's Moche people, the tombs of the contemporary Nazca people of the south have yielded few gold objects. Usually... more
Bird Ornament
Peru
Bird Ornament
Peru
Bird Ornament
Peru
Tripod Bird Bowl
A favored vessel type of the Maya lowlands was one made in the shape of a tropical bird, perhaps a cormorant, in the act of catching a fish in its beak. The bird's forehead is marked with a disk, probably depic... more
Shard with Bird
Made in Byzantine Egypt
Bird
Made in Kharga Oasis, Byzantine Egypt
Bird
Made in Kharga Oasis, Byzantine Egypt
Bird
Made in Kharga Oasis, Byzantine Egypt
Hanging Fragment with Bird and Basket
The brilliantly colored, painterly depiction of a blue bird and a basket of grapes is typical of the figural naturalism of the late Greco-Roman period. Originally part of a series of decorated bands composing ... more
Bird
Made in Kharga Oasis, Byzantine Egypt
Bird Bottle
Peru
Bird Warrior Bottle
Stirrup-spout bottles were the privileged ceramic medium used by Moche artists in the expression of complex ideological messages. Moche slip-painted vessels were typically bichrome, with red decoration on white... more
Bird Pendant
Costa Rica
Bird Pendant
Costa Rica
Plaque from a Casket with a bird
Bone plaques were used to decorate couches, chests, and other furniture. Some were carved in relief; others were carved in intaglio with the incised designs often filled with colored wax. Both styles could be u... more
Head of Garuda (The Royal Solar Bird)
Gupta period
Bird Finial
Colombia
Bird Ornament
Colombia, Sinu River, Caribbean lowlands
Bird Pendant
Colombia, Sinu River, Caribbean lowlands
Mace Head, Bird
Costa Rica
Bird Pin or Spatula
The bird at the top of this spatula is worked in a style found in the art of Tiwanaku, an influential city-state of the second half of the first millennium A.D. in the highland basin of Lake Titicaca in modern ... more
Bird Finial
Perched atop a thimble-shaped cap, a bird figure adorns this gold staff finial, a decorative element that would have once crowned a wood staff. The bird’s tail bears a chevron design, and the chest is ornamente... more
Flying bird
Mesopotamia, Ctesiphon Sasanian
Shield Mount in the Shape of Bird
Made in Northern France
Bird Ornament
Peru
Purse Mount in the Form of a Bird
These objects were used as decorative appliqués on a purse that would have hung from a strap.
Shield Mount in the Shape of Bird
Made in Northern France
Purse Mount in the Form of a Bird
These objects were used as decorative appliqués on a purse that would have hung from a strap.
Vessel in the Shape of a Bird
Tang dynasty (618–907)
Bird Ornament
This delicate shell pendant depicts a long-necked water bird with the head of a deity fused to its breast. The bird spreads its wings, with the feathers indicated with light, u-shaped incisions, and arches its ... more
Bird Head Hacha
Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz
Bowl with Bird Design
Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz
Bird Bottle
Peru
Double Bird Pendant
Panama, Cocle Province, Rio Parita region
Bowl with bird
Made in large quantities in Hunan Province in southwest China, small bowls such as this were widely traded, particularly to centers in West Asia. More than 50,000 similar pieces were recently excavated from a s... more
Pendant with Bird
Colombia, Bogota and Tunja region, Guatavita Lake region
Bowl with Bird and Flowers
This earthenware bowl is one of the finest examples of the "Sari" type, named after the Iranian town near the Caspian Sea where the wares were once thought to have been made. The highly stylized, brightly color... more
Bird Finial
Staff heads or finials are among the more unusual objects from ancient Colombia and are functionally not well understood. They were quite common only in the Sinú region in northwestern Colombia, where they were... more
Relief with a Bird
This relief, cut down from a larger composition, shows an imaginary bird, a cock with a griffin-like head, set within foliage. It is from Salerno, where it was said to have been built into the masonry of a ch... more
Water Bird
Canada
Water Bird
Canada
Bird from BL Arundel 547, f. 22v
Decorated initial with a bird. Image taken from f. 22v of Gospel Lectionary, imperfect. Written in Greek.
Two Bird Finials and a Bird Pin
Found Iran, Nishapur
Water Bird
Canada
Bird Pendant
The Muisca people lived in the fertile basins in the high mountains of the eastern Andes near the present capital of Colombia, Santa Fe de Bogotá. As there were no sources of gold in their territory, they barte... more
Bird Pendant
This pendant is an elegant example of the command of the goldsmith's art that existed for so many centuries in ancient Colombia. The Precolumbian peoples of the gold-rich regions of northern South America worke... more
Striding Garuda (The Royal Solar Bird)
Angkor period
Bird Pendant
This bird pendant has the spread-wing-and-tail configuration characteristic of pendants made in Costa Rica and Panama, but it is more ornate than Isthmian examples. Braided and spiral elements and small gold ba... more
Bowl, Bird Head on Rim
United States, Missouri
Bowl with Stylized Bird
Amul ware is named after a town in northern Iran where early collectors obtained several examples of this type of ceramic, but the actual production site is unknown. These wares are coated with a thick creamy s... more
Double Bird Pendant
Panama
Bowl, Bird Head on Rim
United States, Missouri
Necklace with Bird, Circle and Cylinder Beads
Glass beads were popular jewelry elements in the Islamic world. While some colorful glass beads were made in imitation of precious stones, the marvered glass beads on this necklace were appreciated as well and ... more
Bird Spatula
The area near the town of Popayán in the upper Cauca River area of Colombia has produced a number of handsome gold objects that are not related to any other styles. Of considerable visual appeal and superior cr... more
Bowl, Bird Head on Rim
United States, Missouri
Bird Ornament
Costa Rica
Bowl with Bird of Prey
The bird’s hooked beak signals that it is a bird of prey. It may be a falcon trained for the hunt. Falconry or hawking was enjoyed by the aristocracy, who generally hunted with trained predators. Practical manu... more
Bowl, Bird Head on Rim
United States, Missouri
Nûshîrvân, asleep with his head in the lap of his devoted minister Buzurjmihr, had his jeweled armlet stolen by a bird and unjustly accuses his minister of the theft.
Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.
Figure of a Predatory Bird
Ceramic figurines are among the most common extant form of Islamic sculpture produced in Muslim ateliers from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. A major center of production during the twelfth and thirteen... more
Bird Vessel
Peru
Bird Vessel
Peru