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Pair of Bib Necklace on Metal Stands, Sold Singly
Located in Sheffield, MA
The highly decorative bib beaded necklaces are treated as works of art displayed on their black metal stands as sculptural works of art. Near the necks are bent poles wrapped with tw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Tribal Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Twine, Beads
Vintage R & Y Augousti Sculptural Mosaic Vase in Exotic Red and Black Pen-Shell
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Organic modern vase with sculptural abstract form. Handcrafted from exotic materials featuring lacquered pen-shell inlays with geometric patterns in red and black. Comprised of pen-s...
Category
Early 2000s French Organic Modern Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Palmwood
Organic Modernist Sculptural Clam Shell on Lucite Base Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
A beautiful organic sculptural clam shell on a solid Lucite base. This piece is glamorous and Classic. The oval base beautifully displays the ultra polished shell...
Category
Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Lucite
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Italian Fragment with Fossil Agate Coral and a Silver Leaf Shell
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian candlestick top fragment with polished agate coral and a coordinating silver-leaf shell.
The hand-carved, 18th century silver candlestick top origin...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Agate, Silver Leaf
$750 Sale Price
25% Off
An ostrich egg from a wunderkammer, with an ebonized wooden base, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A specimen of Naturalia an ostrich egg (Struthio camelus) mounted on an ebonized wooden base. The upper part, mounted on the summit, in the shape of a pinnacle, always of the same w...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Shell Sculptures
Materials
Ostrich Eggshell, Wood
18th Century 'Florence Fragment' with Elestial Quartz and Ecphora Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian "Florence fragment" vase with an elestial quartz point, chalcedony rosettes, and ecphora shells on a petrified wood base. The elestial quartz has an additional c...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal
Sculpture with Seashell Assemblage and Antique Candelabrum Base
Located in Marbella, ES
Sculpture with Seashell Assemblage and Antique Candelabrum Base
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture with Seashells with Antique french base with bronze
Located in Marbella, ES
Sculpture with Seashells with Antique french base with bronze
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Italian Fragment with Baroque Pearls on Optical Calcite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment adorned with baroque pearls and mounted on a optical calcite base. The fragment originally came from a historical church in Italy. It is adorned with na...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal
A pair of diorama with hermit crabs, Italy 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
A natural Wunderkammer specimen a pair of marine diorama with Hermit Crab (Pagurus Bernhardus) a brunch, fan shaped of Horny coral, reef, shells. The Specimens are mounted inside a glass...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Coral
Shell Encrusted Cat Figurine
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A whimsical shell-covered cat figurine. Delicately applied seashells cover this feline figurine in an array of browns. Great for the kitten lover, or for ...
Category
20th Century Philippine Folk Art Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Carved Natural Amber Sculpture "Nesting Snakes" by Lee Downey Bali, Indonesia
By Lee Downey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A finely carved natural Aber Specimen group of nesting snakes, featuring a large, very clear amber specimen from Chiapas, Mexico, a carving representing two snakes intertwined around a tree trunk rests within a section of natural moose antler which cleverly represents the base of the tree. A mother-of-pearl carved egg form tops the display. On a jet base with an amber piece giving the impression of an imbedded sphere. Offered with a custom-fitted Balinese fabric...
Category
Late 20th Century Indonesian Country Shell Sculptures
Materials
Other
$1,450 Sale Price
49% Off
Organic Tube Shell Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Tall elegant tube shell sculpture designed and executed by F. S. Henemader with a dramatic form and striking bleached white color. Presented on a Lucite base to enhance the sculptura...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Solomon Islands Organic Modern Shell Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Sculpture with Seashell Assembly and Antique Silver Base
Located in Marbella, ES
Sculpture with Seashell Assembly and Antique Silver Base
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Ruler Selenite with an 18th Century Italian Fragment & Baroque Pearls on Lucite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Ruler Selenite with an 18th century Italian gold leaf fragment. Mica, and natural forming baroque pearls on a lucite base. Ruler selenite or "selenite logs" are single, prismatic selenite crystals from Morocco that were formed in extensive beds by the evaporation of ocean brine. This mineral is characterized by a silky, pearly luster called satin spar.
The piece is put together by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the artist and creative director of Interi. The date of manufacture reflects when she created the piece but the Italian fragment is originally 18th century.
Interi transforms Italian artifacts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Organic Modern Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal
$937 Sale Price
25% Off
Sculpture with Seashells and Base with Antique silver plate Candelabrum
Located in Marbella, ES
Sculpture with Seashells and Base with Antique silver plate Candelabrum
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Silver Plate
Sea Shell Sea Shells Coastal Ornaments Set
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Natural sea shells set of 14 different sea shells as Christmas Ornaments. Great natural decor for Holidays.
Category
1970s American Rustic Vintage Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
$132 Sale Price / set
55% Off
An iron vase full of shells, France circa 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
An iron cast square vase with an iron base, with relief decorative elements, over which is a connecting element. Overall the iron rods that describe a vase silouette. The basket is f...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Iron
John Dickinson Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Driftwood sculpture selected by John Dickinson for the Historic Firehouse, San Francisco.
Placed in John's bedroom on the same cases shown, (also available) Custom brass display mount...
Category
1970s American American Craftsman Vintage Shell Sculptures
Materials
Brass
$14,700
Madrepora and Shells Composition on Little Wooden Bases
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Two little madrepora and shells composition on a pair of wooden bases: very simple that You can set anywhere.
One is lower than the other, but they are both very pretty.
I cannot wri...
Category
2010s Italian Other Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
$756 Sale Price / set
20% Off
1990s Marine Sculptural Composition with Shells and Sea Urchins on a Golden Wood
Located in Marbella, ES
A decorative piece with an artistic and naturalistic spirit, formed by a vertical assembly of authentic marine elements: a large mottled cone shell (probably Conus textile), a lavend...
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Wood
Old Papua New Guinea Male Ancestral Figure
Located in Rochester, NY
Papua New Guinea standing male ancestral figure. Hand carved from a single piece of wood. Beautiful old pigmented surface w/ finely decorated facial features and shell eyes. Good sig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Wood
Early to mid-20th Century Karaut Pectoral, Abelam Culture, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Karaut pectoral, Southern Abelam people, Papua New Guinea
Fiber, boar's tusks, nassa and cowrie shells, pigment
15 by 5.25 inches (38 by 13.3 cm)
This finely woven karaut boar’s tus...
Category
Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Natural Fiber
1990s Marine Centerpiece with Shells and Marble Base
Located in Marbella, ES
Pieza decorativa de inspiración costera formada por un elegante cuenco natural de concha de vieira gigante, montado sobre una base torneada de mármol blanco pulido, que sostiene un e...
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Marble
1970s Caprice Shell Mobile Wind Chime
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
Wonderful caprice shell mobile from the 1970s. The mobile makes a wonderful delicate sound when the wind catches the caprice shells and they move and touch together.
Acrylic top wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Hollywood Regency Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
A branch of a light blue mother of pores with shells, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A Specimen from Wuderkammer: a branch of blue Madrepora (Heliopora Coerulea). The Specimen, with various examples of shells, is mounted on a column-shaped wooden base with gilded par...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Coral
Pair of 18th Century Italian Gilded Bases with Angel Wing Shells and Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A pair of 18th century Italian gilded and hand-carved bases with two matching angel wing shells and adorned with coordinating natural forming baroque pearls. The hand-carved, gold le...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large 19th Century Indonesian Clam Shell
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Large 19th Century clam shell, ‘Tridacna Gigas’ from a private collection.
With lovely patination, layering and fossilising. This is a fantastic large example and a wonderful decora...
Category
19th Century Indonesian Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
Pair of Teno Silver Sea Shell Red Stone Eye Zodiac Figures
By Aurelio Teno
Located in Westport, CT
Pair of Teno Co silver and shell red stone eye Gemini and Taurus, marble base figures/ bookends.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Shell Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Sterling Silver
Vintage Boho Shell Encrusted Skull Signed
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fabulous vintage boho skull. Shell encrusted surface with incredible attention to detail. Signed by the artist. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Bohemian Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
Sculpture with Mounted Seashells and Glass Base
Located in Marbella, ES
Sculpture with Mounted Seashells and Glass Base
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Glass
Los Castillo Brass, Copper and Abalone Dish attributed to Salvador Teran
Located in Miami, FL
Los Castillo Brass, Copper and Abalone Dish attributed to Salvador Teran
Offered for sale is a brass, copper and abalone dish in the form of a whim...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Shell Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Brass
$475 Sale Price
26% Off
Pre Colombian Choker Necklace with Mother of Pearl and Beads
Located in Dallas, TX
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 500 CE.
A choker necklace comprised of seven strands strung with hundreds of black and white hand-carved shell beads. The strands...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Coral
Vintage Boho Hand Carved Wooden Lady With Nautilus
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fabulous vintage Boho wooden hand carved figure. A beautiful wooden construction of a beautiful lady holding a large beautiful shell. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate
Category
Late 20th Century Bohemian Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
Box with a Shell Lid in Style of Alexandre Noll
Located in NYC, NY
A beautiful wood box with a small compartment inside and a shell lid in the manner of Alexandre Noll.
Category
1940s French Minimalist Vintage Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell, Walnut
Early 20th Century Sago Peg, Abelam/Wosera People, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Sago peg, tapak, Abelam/Wosera people, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Sago pegs are used to secure a screen mesh during the preparation of sago flour. This example depicts a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
Mid Century Swan Double Clam Shell Dish, Gabriella Binazzi style, Italy, c. 1970
Located in London, GB
A very unusual trinket or bathroom dish in the form of a swan with double clam shell wings, in the style of Gabriella Binazzi and made in Italy c. 1970.
This is a wonderful example ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Shell Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Dark Brown And Black Pair Large Mussel Shells Sculpture, Indonesia, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Borneo pair of large mussel shells on stands.
Tortoise color, glossy finish.
Stands measure 4" x 4"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indonesian Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
1950s South African Scrimshaw Ostrich Egg by Late Chief Sipho Ndldvu
Located in Marbella, ES
Original 1950s South African scrimshaw ostrich egg by late chief Sipho Ndlvu.
Category
Mid-20th Century South African Shell Sculptures
Materials
Ostrich Eggshell
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Processional Finial Mounted on Malachite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gilded and hand-painted processional finial with baroque pearls and mounted on malachite. The piece was originally part of a processional pole...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Malachite, Rock Crystal
Contemporary handmade sculptural LED Chandelier. Crystal, and páua shell. Small
Located in Torslanda, SE
Taking inspiration from the necessity of light for life, the Joni range is a portrayal of photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight to food.
Within each leaf-like LED light structure, a crystal hemisphere magnifies an iridescent Páua shell...
Category
2010s Scandinavian Modern Shell Sculptures
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Italian Fish Sculpture Made of Fragments from the 18th and 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
Fish sculpture made of fragments from the 18th and 19th century. The piece also has element from nature including a shark's jaw. A real conversation piece!
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Shell
Antique Grand Tour French Parian Sculpture Male Female Figures Group 19C
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning French Grand Tour Parian Bisque Group depicting a male and female standing figures, mid to late Nineteenth Century.
The male Farmer in period dress holding an agricultural...
Category
19th Century French Grand Tour Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Abalone, Porcelain
18th Century Italian Giltwood Element Fish Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Unique 18th century giltwood element fish sculpture. This piece includes antique fragments along with a tortoise shell and sea shells. A real conversation piece.
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Shell, Wood
$2,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Assambled Sculpture of Antique Ostrich Egg with Silver Base
Located in Marbella, ES
Assambled Sculpture of Antique Ostrich Egg with Silver Base
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Shell Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Sculptural Shell and Metal Bettle Figures (Pair)
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful pair of sculptural bettle figures. These figures are constructed of shell and carefully crafted metal details. Legs and whiskers in raw metal shine with vitality and ligh...
Category
1990s Singaporean Folk Art Shell Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Atlantic Sea Shell and Crystal Quartz and Crystals Citrine Quartz
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Beautiful Atlantic trumpet seashell professionally mounted on genuine sea coral base, artistically embedded with exceptional crystal quartz stone, and citrine crystal quartz stone to...
Category
2010s American Shell Sculptures
Materials
Quartz
18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' Candlestick with Fishtail Selenite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" candlestick base mounted with a fishtail selenite and decorated with chalcedony rosettes and ecphora shells.
This fragment is from a church ...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Crystal, Gold Leaf
Shell Currency Yua Bride's Price, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Yua Shell Currency, Bride’s Price
Sepik River Region, Papua New Guinea
Hand carved from a clam shell
Measures: 7 x 7.5 in / 18 x 19 cm
Height on cus...
Category
20th Century Papua New Guinean Other Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
Ostrich Egg Sculpture by Glyn Lockett
By Glyn Lockett
Located in Bagshot, GB
An ostrich egg sculpture by Glyn Lockett with silver brass stem and the applied plaque with coral and seed pearls on buffalo Horn silvered base s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Great Britain (UK) Shell Sculptures
Materials
Coral, Brass
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Fragment Mounted on Phantom Optical Calcite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with gold mica and baroque pearls on a phantom optical calcite base.
The fragment originally came from a historical church in Italy. It is adorned with...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century Antique Jerusalem Mother of Pearl Shell Carved Plaques
Located in London, GB
A beautiful collection of five shells engraved from the Holy Land depicts a religion scenes, three of them depicts the last supper in Jerusalem, the other two depicts scenes from the...
Category
Late 19th Century Israeli Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Seashell Sculpture “Seascape Symphony By Artist - Joseph Malekan
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Discover the enchanting beauty of nature captured in this exquisite sculpture this stunning piece title Seascape Symphony is harmonious blend of a majestic clamshell shimmering ro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal
Turuza Wauja. Two-headed bird Sculpture-Bench, 2024 Brazilian wood
Located in PARIS, FR
Turuza Wauja – Two-headed Bird Sculpture-Bench, 2024
Hand-carved by Indigenous Wauja artisans from the Xingu region in Brazil, this remarkable sculpture-bench represents a two-heade...
Category
2010s Brazilian Folk Art Shell Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood, Shell, Paint
17th Century Gold Leaf Fragment with Pyrophyllite and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian gold leaf fragment with pyrophyllite in matrix and decorated with baroque pearls.
This fragment was originally a candlestick from a church in Italy. The pyrophy...
Category
17th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal
20th Century Tribal Kina Shell Pectoral Necklace by Unknown Jeweler
Located in Point Richmond, CA
20th Century Tribal Kina Shell Pectoral Necklace by unknown jeweler
Kina shells were traditionally worn in the western highlands of Papua New Guinea as pectorals, either with a fibe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Tribal Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
Mid-Century Mother-of-pearl and Metal Bird
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1960 silver plated bird with mother-of-pearl insets.
Measurements:
Height: 27"
Width: 20"
Depth: 14".
Category
1960s North American Vintage Shell Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Mecca Arrow on a Polished Calcite Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th-century distressed Italian mecca arrow with a baroque pearl on a polished calcite base.
The arrow was once part of a decorative motif in an artistic depiction in historic Itali...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
$712 Sale Price
25% Off
Set of Micromosaic Shells
Located in New York, NY
Set of micro mosaic shells three natural shells filled with micro mosaic in nautical designed tones, Perfect for a hostess' gift in Palm Beach. United States, contemporary
Dimensions...
Category
2010s American Shell Sculptures
Materials
Shell
$650 / set
Swarovski Crystal Encrusted Starfish by Douglas Cloutier
By Douglas Cloutier
Located in New York, NY
Large Starfish encrusted with Swarovski crystals and
miniature shells by Artist Douglas Cloutier
The piece is signed on the back with the Cloutier label.
Category
1990s American Modern Shell Sculptures
Materials
Crystal
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