A large, complex and impressive Victorian sailor's sweetheart or terrarium

A large, complex and impressive Victorian sailor's sweetheart or terrarium, composed of intricately arranged sea shells of varying species and size to portray a brightly coloured floral arrangement, flowers with roses, passion flowers and other blooms on stems, flanked by standing figures, beneath a clear glass dome, raised on a walnut veneered base with pin-stripe boxwood borders, raised on turned supports, 55 cm wide, 35 cm wide.