Shell arrangement from Madison,Wisconsin

shell arrangement

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS
marad; scrimshaw
USA, WI, Madison
20th century
10 x 14-1/2 in.

Shell arrangement; shells and silver-painted plant material arranged individually and as flowers on cotton bed between corrugated cardboard back and glass front; handwritten in black on shell at bottom center, "Madison, Wis."; frame made of pine needles bound with reeds as "rope", and sewn in coil to make oval frame around shellwork; 20th century.


2004.57

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