Date: 20th century
Period/Style: Rococo Revival style
Maker: Unidentified
Materials: Green-painted aluminum.
Form: Garden bench
Description: A green-painted aluminum garden bench in the Rococo Revival taste, having a serpentine openwork back with lattice-pattern panels beneath elaborate foliate and rocaille cresting. The pierced scrolling seat is flanked by openwork arms and raised on cabriole-form legs with scrolling feet. The apron, legs, and arm supports are enriched with additional cast foliate ornament. A decorative 20th-century interpretation of Victorian cast-iron garden seating.
Marks: No maker's mark observed.
Dimensions: 35 in. H, 49 in. W, 17.5 in. D
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Overall weathering from outdoor exposure, including scattered oxidation, rubbing, surface deposits, and losses and deterioration to the green-painted finish. Areas of heavier paint accumulation and possible older repainting are present. Minor irregularities and separations appear along some cast joints.