| Considering how popular shellwork was in Britain, it is not surprising that this form of ornamentation appealed to some well-to-do colonial Americans. |
| The shellwork is of such sophistication that it is hard to imagine that professional assistance was not sought. |
| The body is of a modified inverted bell shape, embossed on the lower part with a band of gadroons and shellwork. |
| However the fact that these two shadow-box grottoes were made by mature women suggests that shellwork was an amusing pastime for women of education and wealth. |
| They have belts of shellwork slung across their shoulders, and are armed with bows and arrows, and flint-headed spears. |
| And you hate the very sight of shellwork and cone-frames, and Grecian painting, and all such vanities? |
