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Box of Shells | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections
Shellwork was particularly popular with middle- and upper-class ladies of fashion, who could afford the often expensive materials. They also had the leisure time to devote to such artistic pursuits, developing the skills required to make complex ornaments, to decorate fernery grottoes attached to the house and small domestic objects, such as boxes, tea caddies and tables. This shell collection was most likely formed in about 1800 by an amateur practitioner of shell-work.
Paesine - Pierre à images de marbre de Florence, déjà connue sous Pline l'Ancien et très appréciée sous la Renaissance pour ses paysages de villages, de ruines, de grottes et de mer.