Bird

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Iron birds with fittings similar to this one, but not necessarily of the same period or style, are used extensively in northern Spain, both indoors and outside as brackets for lanterns. Typical examples are the street light brackets in Solsona (Lérida) and the light brackets attached to the crest of a reja in the Capilla del Sagrario at the Cathedral of Segovia.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art