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Material: Shell
18th Century Rococo Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Fossil Shells and Barnacles
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment topped with natural forming clusters of fossil shells and barnacles. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the histori...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Late 19th-Early 20th White Bailer Shell Pectoral, Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th-early 20th Bailer shell pectoral, Highlands, possibly Mendi People, Papua New Guinea
These large shell pectorals were worn ceremonially by men and women in Papua New Guine...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Natural Turbo Marmoratus or Green Turban Shell
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful natural specimen.
Turbo marmoratus is a large species of marine gastropod with a calcareous operculum in the family turbinidae. The color pattern is green, marble with w...
Category
20th Century Unknown Organic Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Assortment of Decorative Shells
Located in Riverdale, NY
Lovely Assortment of Decorative Shells of all species including Queen, spider conchs, brain and branch coral, all great for decorative use. Small natural losses but overall very nice...
Category
1950s Unknown Vintage Shell Natural Specimens
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
"Cauliflower" Fossil Agate Coral with Baroque Pearls and Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
"Cauliflower" fossil agate coral adorned with natural-forming baroque pearls and shells.
Fossil agate coral is Florida's state stone and is known for its unique formation that can take place over 20 million years. It's a natural gemstone that is created when prehistoric coral is gradually replaced with agate. This is a complete piece of fossil coral head...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Organic Modern Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Coral
Sculptural Geode Specimen with Natural Forming Crystal & Baroque Pearl in Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A rare sculptural quartz geode in matrix with a natural formed crystal and baroque pearl.
This specimen is from the Appalachian region of North Carolina. This was dug by hand and in...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Prehistoric Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Large Beautiful and Highly Decorative Natural Sea Shell #5
Located in Opa Locka, FL
Large Beautiful and Highly Decorative Natural Sea Shell. I purchased a collection of large shells from an antique store in Newport.
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Sea Shell and Quartz Crystal Sculpture by Joseph Malekan
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Fantastic Atlantic sea shell professionally mounted on a natural coral base, artistically hand embedded with small rocks crystal pieces that make beautiful one of a kind object of ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Quartz
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Large One of a Kind Sea Shell and Citrine Crystal
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Elegant Atlantic trumpet sea shell professionally mounted on a natural coral base, artistically hand embedded with citrine crystal quartz pieces that make a beautiful object of art f...
Category
20th Century American Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral, Rock Crystal
Large Kyanite Mineral Adorned with Silver Leaf Shells, Kyanite & Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Kyanite adorned with silver leaf shells, silver plated kyanite, and natural-forming baroque pearls. This is one of the largest forms of kyanite found. It is incredibly rare and almos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Organic Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Silver Leaf
18th Century Italian Mecca Vase with Mica, Tourmaline, and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian mecca vase mounted with mica and tourmaline and adorned natural-forming baroque pearls. The mica and baroque pearls perfe...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Organic Beaded Necklace on Stand, Sold Singly
Located in Sheffield, MA
The organic necklaces are treated as works of art or sculpture displayed on their black metal stands. The top parts are intricately braided twine attached to which are sliced sea she...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indonesian Organic Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Ostrich Eggshell, Wood
18th Century Italian Ribbon Fragment with Baroque Pearls on Selenite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian ribbon fragment with natural-forming baroque pearls on a selenite slab.
The Italian ribbon fragment original came from a...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Set of Five Ornamental Shells in Mexican Silver Baskets
Located in New York, NY
Set of five ornamental shells in Mexican silver baskets. Five Mexican small sterling silver woven baskets topped with decorative mica stone chips suggesting baskets of silver with fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Sterling Silver
1970’s Capiz Shell Flower Display
Located in Charleston, SC
I really do love these capiz faux flower arrangements. You usually find these hand crafted displays in a shell being used as the vase. But thi...
Category
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Candlestick with Chalcopyrite and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian candlestick mounted on chalcopyrite and adorned with baroque pearls.
This fragment was originally part of a candlestick from a historical church in I...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf, Metal
Ruler Selenite with an 18th Century Italian Sunray & Baroque Pearls on Lucite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Ruler Selenite with an 18th century Italian gold leaf molding and a natural forming baroque pearl 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 spare. It is then adorned with gold leaf wood molding and the baroque pearl which coordinate beautifully with the sleek selenite.
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 sunray is originally 18th century.
Interi transforms Italian artifacts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Citrine Crystals in Matrix and Mounted on an 18th Century Italian Gilt Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Citrine crystals in matrix mounted on a gilded 18th century Italian base. The citrine crystal specimen is adorned with baroque pearls and it sits in a bed of crushed crystals and coo...
Category
18th Century Italian Organic Modern Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Mollusk Shell Sculpture, Indonesia, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
19th century Indonesian mollusk shell on stand.
Beautiful natural aged patina from being under water for over 100 years.
Stand measures 3.5" x 3.5".
Category
19th Century Indonesian Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Black Coral on a Pyrite Crystal Base with a Fossil Seashell
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Rare black coral on a pyrite crystal base with a fossilized seashell.
The combination of the glittery silver pyrite and the alluring shape of the black coral creates a sculptural ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral, Pyrite
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral, Brass
18th Century Italian Wood Candlestick Decorated with a Crystal and Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian (Region of Liguria) wood candlestick decorated with a calcite crystal in matrix, a specimen from the Elmwood Mine, and gold leaf shells. This mine produces some ...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal
17th Century 'Florence Fragment' with a Chesapecten Shell & Gold Crystal Points
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian vase with a chesapecten shell & gold-plated crystal points.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of t...
Category
17th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf, Gold Plate
18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Sunray with a Baroque Pearl on an Aragonite Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian sunray with baroque pearls mounted on an aragonite crystal base.
The 18th century gold leaf sunray originally part of a halo or sunburst motif in an artistic depiction in a historic church. It is mounted onto the white aragonite...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Wood Mirror Decorated with Crystal Points and Fossil Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Shadowbox frame wall mirror decorated with faden crystal points and fossil shells.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal
19th Century Italian Peditment Fragment with Pectin Shells and Crystal on Lucite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
19th century Italian pediment fragment decorated with pectin shells and red phantom crystal points on a lucite base.
The piece is put together by ...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Pair of 18th Century Italian Candlestick Tops with Agate Coral and Baroque Pearl
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A pair of 18th century Italian silver leaf candlestick tops with polished agate coral and baroque pearls.
The hand-carved, silver lea...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Coral, Silver Leaf
18th Century Italian Candlestick Top with Fossil Agate Coral and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gold leaf candlestick top with polished fossil agate coral and natural forming Baroque pearls. The 18th century fragment comes from Tuscany and has the original candlestick wax...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Agate, Coral, Gold Leaf
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 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 and the period shows that the Italian fragment is originally 18th century.
Interi transforms Italian artifacts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
17th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' Vase with a Mica Cluster & Garnets
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian fragment mounted with mica cluster with garnets on a petrified wood base.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It wa...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Set of Three Oyster Shells on Stands, Indonesia, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Indonesian set of three oyster shells on stands.
Beautiful natural patina.
One measures 7" diameter x 13" tall
One measures 7" diameter x 15" tall
One measures 7" diam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indonesian Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Three Gold Plated Nautilus Shells, Priced Individually
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Group of three nautilus shells with their iconic form, gold plated with a copper under coat wearing through as a sculptural element.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Set of Two Mollusk Shell Sculptures, Indonesia, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
19th century Indonesian set of two mollusk shells on stands.
Beautiful natural aged patina from being under water for over 100 years.
One measures 6" diameter and 13" tall
One mea...
Category
19th Century Indonesian Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
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 Natural Specimens
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
Vintage Coastal Plaster Shell Bust of Woman
Located in west palm beach, FL
An exceptional vintage Coastal bust of woman. A beautiful profile of a serene woman. A beautiful collection of shells wrap around her head and neck. Acqu...
Category
Late 20th Century North American Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell, Plaster
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 Natural Specimens
Materials
Brass
Contemporary Object d’Art / Leather Wrapped Shell with Bronze Handmade Chain
Located in Chicago, IL
The shell, a marvel of the sea, is embraced by the soft embrace of fine leather, showcasing its natural curves and textures. Each meticulously applied leather detail celebrates the s...
Category
2010s Israeli Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Bronze
Dark Brown And Cream Stack of Polished Shells Sculpture, Indonesia, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Indonesian stack of polished shells on stand.
Decorative hand painted dark brown and cream circular pattern design.
Interspersed series of flattened shell rings in shade...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indonesian Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
18th Century Italian Fragment Base with Mica in Matrix and Silver Leaf Shells
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian base decorated with mica in matrix, and silver leaf shells on an antique metal base decorated with church vestment braid. The 18th century fragment ba...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Metal, Silver Leaf
Victorian Shell Obelisk with Tin Type Photographs
Located in West Palm Beach, US
Victorian Shell Obelisk with Tin Type Photographs
This unique Victorian shell obelisk features intricate shell decorations and houses four original tin type photographs. While the p...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Airin Canedo sculture in wood, glass, reptiles and eggs circa 1990
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Incredible sculpture in wood, glass, lizard and eggshell by AIRIN CANEDO circa 1990
Category
1990s Brazilian Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Eggshell, Lizard, Wood, Glass
Black Shell Necklace Accessory on Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
Black shell necklace accessory on metal stand.
One of a kind sourced from Belgium.
2 available.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Mid-Century Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
Multiple Shells Purse, Indonesia, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Indonesian purse made of a multitude of different shells.
All connected by natural twine.
Very decorative placed in a bowl.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indonesian Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell, Twine
South Asian Necklace
Located in Dallas, TX
South Asian necklace.
Piece from our one-of-a-kind collection, Le Monde. Exclusive to Brendan Bass.
Globally curated by Brendan Bass, Le Monde furniture and accessories offer mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indonesian Organic Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
South Asian Necklace
Located in Dallas, TX
South Asian necklace, including stand. In my vintage, organic, contemporary, and mid-century modern style.
This piece is a part of Brendan Bass’s one-of-a-kind collection, Le Monde....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indonesian Organic Modern Shell Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell
