An open-and-shut case
THERE’S rather more to the scallop than initially meets the eye. Up to 200 of them, for a start—eyes, that is, green ringed with blue and scattered around their frill. Not so much for looking forward (they face backwards), rather, to watch out for any peckish predators.
The king scallop is also a creature of contrasts, managing to be a symbol of both pagan fertility and Christian piety, the sensual and the sublime—as seen in Botticelli’s , where the ethereal beauty of the goddess, windswept and
