Seashell Collection (#15)

Mask from Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is a small, landlocked country north of Ghana and south of Mali and Niger. Economically, it is one of the four or five poorest countries in the world

Human skull with features modelled in clay and painted, from New Guinea
Human skull used for ancestor worship with features modelled in clay and painted, from the Sepik river in New Guinea. Now in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh

Skull from Jericho, modelled with plaster and shells. It was probably kept in the home, and used for ancestor-worship. From the British Museums collection

Princess Granida (after the play Granida by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft), 1651. Artist: Jan van Bijlert
Princess Granida (after the play Granida by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft), 1651. Found in the collection of the Museum of Private Collections in the A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Fossil shells in limestone

Murex, c1890. The mollusc which inhabited this shell was the source of Tyrian Purple dye

Birth of Venus, 1st century. Fresco showing Venus, the Roman goddess of love, in the shell, from the House of Venus Pompeii, Italy

Strings of Cowrie shells. Through the ages, these have been widely used as a form of currency

Fountain design, 1664. Artist: Georg Andreas Bockler
Fountain design, 1664. Elaborate designs for Baroque fountains for public squares and private country house gardens in the French, German

The Boys with the Shell, c1670. Artist: Bartolome Esteban Murillo
The Boys with the Shell, c1670. Found in the collection of the Prado, Madrid, Spain

Model of a Bothriolepsis, a fish from the Upper Devonian Strata in Canada, from the British Museums collection

Flowers in a porcelain vase, c1600. Artist: Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
Flowers in a porcelain vase, c1600. Tulips, Roses, Carnations, French Marigolds, Lily-of-the-Valley, Aquelegia, Forget-me-not and other flowers, in a porcelain vase

Pilgrims and Pilgrims, 1873. Artist: Joseph Swain
Pilgrims and Pilgrims, 1873. A nattily dressed modern pilgrim casually lights a cigar as he talks about the perils of pilgrimage with the Ancient Pilgrim, dressed in the clothes of the past

Reversing the Proverb, 1864. Artist: John Tenniel
Reversing the Proverb, 1864. The Oyster where it ought to be, And Shell and Shell the Lawyers Fee. Here, the plaintiff whose case is settled is walking away with the oyster

Picture No. 12009535
Common Whelk - empty shell on sand - Germany Date:

Picture No. 12009534
Common Whelk - empty shell on sand - Germany Date:

The Arms of the Dutch East India Company and of the Town of
Jeronimus Becx (active c. 1649-1658). Dutch artist. The Arms of the Dutch East India Company and of the Town of Batavia, 1651. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Variety of seashells including oysters, file clams, smooth pectens and scarlet thorny oyster.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Fletcher Lake, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA
View of Fletcher Lake, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA, with a border of seashells. Date: circa 1912

Studies Reclined Woman Seashell Triumph Galatea
Artokoloro

USA, Washington. Close-up of pastel seashell. Credit as: Don Paulson / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

USA, Washington. Close-up of collection of sea shells. Credit as: Don Paulson / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont

Low tide at sunrise. Lands End. Homer. Alaska
Low tide at sunrise. Lands End. Homer, Alaska, USA

Seashells for sale Zihuatanejo, Mexico

A conch shell on the shore in Grace Bay, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean, West Indies, Central America

Camel Rock at New South Wales Coast

Decorative nautical set
Nautical design elements

Spiral shell
Macro of small sea shell on rocky shore looks to be spiraling into bokeh

Mussel section
Antique illustration of freshwater mussel section

Marbled Cone (Conus Marmoreus)

Hone shell (lima squamosa)

Planorbarius corneus (great ramshorn)
Antique illustration of Planorbarius corneus (great ramshorn)

Oliva (gastropod)
Antique illustration of a Oliva (gastropod)

Spondylus gaederopus seashell conch shell

Sea shell (Naticarius canrena)
Illustration of a Sea shell (Naticarius canrena)

Goniatite
Illustration of a Goniatids, informally Goniatites, are ammonoid cephalopods that form the Order Goniatiida

Shell Time

Clam with brown shell and a blue centre, side view

Scallop (aviculopecten), extinct species with closed shell, side view

Marine life on beach and underwater

Illustration of empty cockle shell showing posterior and anterior abductor muscle scars, beak and hinge ligament

Illustration of Peppery Furrow Shell (Scrobicularia plana), also known as Sand Gaper, with long siphons in leathery tube, and West African Tellin (Tellina madagascariensis)

Illustration of Great scallop (Pecten maximus), open shell

Illustration of oyster pearl

Illustration of Thin tellin (Tellina tenuis) shell in sand

Illustration of pearl oyster

Illustration of pearl in shell

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