EditorialUnderwater Reef 'The Size Of A Football Pitch' Becomes Home To 10,000 Native Oysters - In Bid To Restore The Threatened Species And Support Marine Life
EditorialThe Birth of Venus, 1478. Detail of the Birth of Venus in scallop shell. SANDRO BOTTICELLI. PRIMAVERA (PERSONIFICATION). CLORIS. tierra. CEFIRO DIOS DEL VIENTO. VENUS DIOSA ROMANA. AEOLUS. AURA DIOSA DE LA BRISA.
EditorialMemorial plaque of Ursicinus. From top to bottom, a scallop, a portrait of the deceased with a dalmatic, a Chi Rho surrounded by a laurel wreath and an inscription. Mid-4th century AD (326-361). Mosaic. From Alfaro (La Rioja, Spain). National Archaeolo...
Editorial'Their sitting at meate'. Engraving of two figures seated on a strip of matting, eating with their right hands from a large circular dish containing grains of food. The woman wears a necklace of beads, and a fringed skin robe over her left shoulder. Th...
EditorialPilgrims' badge. Symbol scallop-shell Way of St. James. Rune pins, wooden amulets (have magic inscriptions in Latin). Historical Museum. Oslo. Norway.
EditorialHandkerchief of batist on which embroidery with a man running after his horse, Handkerchief of natural-colored batist with embroidery - white work - and around an edge bobbin lace: Valenciennes lace. Square model with rounded corners set on by the stri...
EditorialTap jug, round, decorated with appliqu? profile edge with lambrequins, The round can rest on three legs and has a tap, two ears with hinged handles and a loose lid. The legs are each constructed from a C-volute rolled in at the bottom, octagonal in cro...
EditorialStrip of machine side with interconnected U-shaped fields with a flower twig in it and a hanging rosette flower underneath, Strip of natural-colored machine side. The repeating pattern along the lower half of the strip consists of a succession of U-sha...
EditorialTwo Salt-Cellars, Two salt-cellars, Salt barrel whose shell is being carried seated on a dolphin by a boy, The salt vessels (A and B) are made up of a cast pedestal and trunk and a driven bowl. The triangular, high-rising gilt pedestal is completely de...
EditorialStrip lace with V-shaped pattern above folded shell, Strip of natural colored needle lace: Burano lace. The symmetrical pattern consists of a V-shaped pattern above an open shell that lies along the underside of the strip. The V is formed by a row of d...
EditorialScallop Shelf, one of Peay’s three estate pinot noir cuvées, at Peay Vineyards in Cloverdale, Calif., June 22, 2022. (Bryan Meltz/The New York Times)