Explore the Collection
The Johnston Collection contains over 1,500 items and approximately 75% of its records are available for viewing here.
The collection includes ceramics, furniture, glass, horology (clocks and watches), metalwork (including silver), paintings (including miniatures and engravings), textiles, and objets d’art predominantly of English 18th century origin, as well as items from Europe, India, China and Japan.
We are constantly improving and adding to the information on this website through research and scholarship, with updates being made to records on a regular basis and images added when they become available.
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Enter the words you wish to search for. For more specific results: you can search on a phrase (e.g. "Josiah Wedgwood"), include a word (e.g. +cup), exclude a word (e.g. -tea), search on part of a word (e.g. paint*). Please see the Help topic on the Search for more details on how to formulate your searches.