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Pair of Silver Attachments in the Form of Seashells in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2010

Pair of Silver Attachments in the Form of Seashells in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2010
Pair of Silver Attachments in the Form of Seashells
Greek, late 4th-3rd century BC

Accession # 1994.5.1.-.2

Appliques like these delicate shells could have decorated boxes or chests or the junction of the handle and shoulder of an oinochoe (jug.)

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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