Shells

162 Public domain

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42 Public domain

Drawings and Prints

39 Public domain

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

31 Public domain

Greek and Roman Art

9 Public domain

American Decorative Arts

9 Public domain

9 Public domain

4 Public domain

Musical Instruments

4 Public domain

European Paintings

4 Public domain

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

4 Public domain

2 Public domain

The Robert Lehman Collection

2 Public domain

By type

30 Public domain

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

8 Public domain

8 Public domain

Sword Furniture-Tsuba

7 Public domain

7 Public domain

Sculpture-Bronze

7 Public domain

Ceramics-Porcelain

6 Public domain

Ceramics-Pottery

6 Public domain

6 Public domain

Metalwork-Silver

5 Public domain

4 Public domain

Prints|Ephemera

4 Public domain

Works

Bernard Palissy

last quarter 16th century

染分紗綾地蜘蛛海松貝模様小袖|Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses

early 17th century

Terracotta shell

ca. 2200–1050 BCE

Terracotta shell

ca. 2200–1050 BCE

Shell engraved with winged female deity, sphinxes, and lotus plants

Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a shell

4th century BCE

Terracotta aryballos (oil flask) in the form of three cockleshells

4th century BCE

Pair of bronze handle attachments from a situla (bucket)

4th century BCE

Terracotta vase in the form of two cockle shells

4th century BCE

Terracotta fish-plate

Helgoland Painter

ca. 350–325 BCE

Terracotta oil lamp

1st century BCE–1st century CE

Ring with Shell

4th–7th century

Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Shell

5th–15th century

Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Shell

5th–15th century

Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Shell

5th–15th century

Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Shell

5th–15th century

11th century or earlier

15th–16th century

Pilgrim's Badge

Pilgrim's Badge

明永樂　紅漆戧金　《佛名經》　夾經板|Sutra Covers with the Eight Buddhist Treasures

Boy on a shell, holding a candlestick

mid-15th century

late 15th–early 16th century

Covered Goblet with Shells

Albrecht Altdorfer

Decorative border panel with a flaming candelabra ornamented with shells, swags and heads of putti, from Life of the Virgin and Christ

Francesco Rosselli

明織錦經面|Book or Sutra Cover with Lady Bearing a Conch

Neptune Seated Blowing a Conch Shell

Giorgio Ghisi|Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Anonymous, 16th century

Manuscript Leaf with Saint James the Greater, from a Book of Hours

Seated Neptune holding a conch shell to his mouth, accompanied by a seated triton and another emerging from the water at bottom right

Giorgio Ghisi|Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

Plate 10: Venus in a niche, standing on a conch shell, with Cupid to her right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino

Neptune in his Chariot being drawn by seahorses, from the 'Division of the Universe'

Giulio Bonasone

Ornamental Design with a Bat in the Center

Heinrich Aldegrever

Bernard Palissy

possibly second half 16th century

Bernard Palissy

probably 1556–67

Pendant Design with a Sea Monster Carrying a Woman on a Shell Flanked by a Triton and a Man with an Oar

Jan Collaert I|Philips Galle|Adriaen Collaert

Pendant Design with a Sea Monster in a Shell Carrying a Triton and a Woman with a Sail

Jan Collaert I|Philips Galle|Adriaen Collaert

Crucifix on a Golgotha base

Giuseppe de' Levi|Unidentified

ca. 1590–1600 (base), later 17th century (corpus), 19th century (cross)

Studies of Fruits, Insects and Shells

Maria Sibylla Merian|Georg Flegel

late 16th–mid-17th century

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

ca. 1615–1868

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

ca. 1615–1868

Design for a Plate with Thetis on a Shell in a Medallion Bordered by Sea Monsters

Adriaen Collaert|Philips Galle

Flagon (one of a pair)

17th–18th century

岸蒔絵手箱|Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design

Neptune seated on a marine monster and blowing a conch shell

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

17th century or later

Locket Pendant, Possibly a Pomander, in Shape of Shell with Animal-Headed Cap Flanked by a Small Bird on Sides

early 17th century

Seated satyr with a shell

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

early 17th century

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

An Arrowhead Blue Butterfly and a Scotch Bonnet Sea Shell

Balthasar van der Ast

Design for Cartouches Decorated with Sea-Shells, Garlands, Foliage, Volutes and Urns

Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli

Uematsu Tōshū

Portrait of a Man with a Shell

Thomas de Keyser

Still Life with Shells and a Chip-Wood Box

Sebastian Stoskopff

Shell: Hebrew Volute (Voluta ebraea L)

Wenceslaus Hollar