Nautilus shell

Manufacturer Franchi and Son

Not on view

This electrotype is after an early seventeenth-century original at Elkington's, London, at the time of reproduction, now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amstersdam. It is one of the works depicted in the painting of the Yarmouth Collection, ca. 1660–70, from Norwich Castle Museum.

Nautilus shell, Franchi and Son, Metal mounts, gilt; nautilus shell, British, London, after Dutch, Amsterdam or Utrecht original

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