shellwork

The pieces most easily collected today are from the 19th century, when shellwork became widely popular.

The areas in between had shellwork decorations.

Several "waganga," recognizable by their badges of conical shellwork, came boldly forward.

Pierced rims of expanded shellwork are combined with naturalistic sprays of flowers.

It may throw up pieces of plasterwork, shellwork and panelling, fragments of windows and evidence of colour schemes.

Hollyhock, a shop at 214 North Larchmont Boulevard in Los Angeles, has chic, contemporary shellwork items.

The shellwork tradition began as an Aboriginal women's craft which was adapted and tailored to suit the tourist souvenir market, and which is now considered high art.

The Prince still said nothing, only sat, among his gold and shellwork incense-burners, while the images of the twenty-one Old Gods watched his round, pink satin back.

Ships cruising the Caribbean in the mid-19th century often returned home with sailors' valentines: shellwork rosettes and hearts in octagonal cedar boxes the size of dinner plates.

The making of shellwork artifacts is a practice of Aboriginal women from La Perouse in Sydney, New South Wales, dating back to the 19th century.

The lovely and imaginative pulpit is worth seeing too: free floating white putti bear the pulpit ornated with the golden reliefs of the Evangelists surrounded by shellwork.

Majolica and paintings of dogs and shellwork and Staffordshire figures and just about anything that looks like Victoria or Albert might have laid a finger on it.

At March's Triple Pier Expo, an antiques show held at the Hudson River passenger ship terminals, shellwork was one of the trendiest collectibles.

So were the Smyths' shellwork antiques: small, moderately priced Victorian shell-decorated boxes, painted shell souvenirs and elaborate shell love tokens known as sailor's valentines.

Shellwork objects include baby shoes, jewelry boxes and replicas of famous landmarks, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.

They were curious vehicles, orange as a darkling zenith, with glossy lacquer over wood, carved and embellished with inlaid shellwork and covered with a tapestry-like top fringed with tied leather ornaments.

With views across the Solent to the Isle of Wight and Southampton Water, it has two double bedrooms, ornate plaster and shellwork, a top-of-the-tower terrace and a grand double staircase leading to the beach.

Ovid's description of the cave of Achelous provided some specific inspiration to patrons in France as well as Italy for the Mannerist garden grotto, with its cool dampness, tuff vaulting and shellwork walls.

Two bronze fountains originally destined for Livorno (c. 1629), still in a highly Mannerist style indebted to Flemish Mannerist goldsmith's work for their grotesque masks and shellwork textures, were set up instead in Piazza della SS.

The Château de Piédefer, Viry-Châtillon, Essonne, near the Seine south of Paris, traditionally attributed to Charles Perrault, is known for its late-seventeenth-century vaulted nymphaeum or grotto encrusted with rock and shellwork in compartments, and an orangery, both listed as Monuments historiques since 1983.