Nautilus Cup Engraver: Jan Bellekin (Dutch, born 1636)
Maker: (silversmith) Unknown

ca. 1660

European Art

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

Culture
Period

17th century

Classification
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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

Subject

gambling insects

Signed

Signed near bottom of shell: "J. Bellikien

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