APPLICATION OF SHELL FORMS TO MAKING PICTURES. (above) 
Vhough fancy-work of cut and polished shells is comparatively easy to make, and so is found in abandance, 
pictures made of shells in their original form are more difficult and hence seldom found, 
The picture on the tablet here exhibited was designed by a prominent artist, Gyokuzan Asahi of Kyoto, who 
once exhibited a carving in the late Anylo-Japanese Exposition, and received a Grand Medal, 
The flower petals are made of Sextus; stemens and pistils of opercula of Zid, and the rocks of Pearl 
Oysters, /w/sel/a, fresh-water mussels, etc, Close examination will reveal elaborate elegance of workmanship. 
SHELL-FLOWER-VASES. (below) 
Upper row, from the left, Ahtrva episcopalis, Charonia tritonis, Tercbra maculata. 
Middle row, from the left, hanging flower-vases of Cyméium cethiopicum, Pterocera lambis and Murex ramosus. 
Lower row, from the left, a flower-y ase made of two pieces of body-whorls of Zwro marmoratus, burnished 
until the nacreous layer appears, The smaller piece is put inside down, and the larger one is put on it, Conus 
textile; Nautilus pompilius with nacreous layer revealed; Zrbo marmoratus in its original form; Conus striatus and 
Cymbinm indicum. 
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