Pair of scallop shells
Paul de Lamerie
1734/35 · Silver · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
In the first decades of the eighteenth century, fashionable English households adopted a taste for French cuisine. Silver dinner services were expanded to accommodate the new, elaborate sauces, soups, gratins, and fricassees. These naturalistic shells may have been used to serve oysters, sauce, or possibly butter.
- Artist
- Paul de Lamerie
- Date
- 1734/35
- Medium
- Silver
- Culture
- British, London
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924
