Melo Amphora -T2/368 PWH/23/551 Necklace of shells on a

Necklace of shells on a custom stand from Papua New Guinea

including housing

With a lustrous polished bronze finish

Height 2: 27 cm Width 2: 3 cm

as well as the daily rhythm of birth and death

Melo Amphora -T2/368 PWH/23/551 Necklace of shells on aMelo amphora, common name the Diadem volute, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae The maximum shell length of this species is up to 500 mm, usually around 300 mm. This large shell has a bulbous or nearly oval outline. Its columella has three easily distinguishable oblique folds. The aperture is wide and near as long as the shell itself, and there is no operculum. It has a very large, inflated and posteriorly