During the 17th century, trade and exploration created a demand for exotic objects such as shells from foreign seas, which were imported to Europe and worked over by artisans. This large nautilus ...

Q. Enclosed is a photo of an electric lamp with nautilus shell shades. Standing 23 inches tall, it has a metal female figure with a wood base. Although it was purchased in 1927, I don't know if it was ...

The front lawn of the Old U.S. Mint at the foot of Esplanade Avenue has a new addition: a one-ton bronze sculpture of a young black boy riding a kind of mollusk called a nautilus. The creature’s ...

Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., "The life and work of Martin Johnson Heade: a critical analysis and catalogue raisonne," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, no. 397 ...