Nautilus Cup | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1660

On view, 4th floor, Special Exhibitions

Medium: Engraved shell with a silver-gilt mount (added later)
Dimensions: 29.2 × 22.2 × 11.1 cm (11 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Marion M. Kemp Fund in memory of her brother, Arthur T. Kemp, B.S. 1894
Accession Number: 1966.137
Geography: Made in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Culture: Dutch
Period: 17th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Bibliography

Jane Wildgoose, Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship and the Order of Things, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, 2009), 20, no. 66.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

nautilus shell cups

gambling insects

Signed near bottom of shell: "J. Bellikien

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