Conch Shell ara Louise of Lorraine

Louise of Lorraine

'Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's marriage' The Vatican condemned Burton and Taylor's affair

Plate 2 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue

Study for the painting of the engraver

11th February 1980

Conch Shell ara Louise of LorraineConch Shell, 1923. Ornament consisting of a conch shell set in metal, possibly gold, decorated with dragons. The shell has religious significance in both Hinduism and Buddhism. One of a series of WD & HO Wills' Cigarette Cards called Lucky Charms, (Bristol and London, 1923).