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Collection: The Gilded Garden

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Pair of terra-cotta urns in the Renaissance revival style, the handles in the form of cherubic grotesque figures with arms crossed over chest, the body of the urns ornamented with floral swags and fleur-de-lis cartouches

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Pair of stoneware roundels representing Day and Night

Collection of hanging wire baskets with fanciful scrollwork

Two wirework trellises

one with flared upper portion, the other with flat top and flared bottom, both with spiral wirework on the shaft

Rare cast-iron "Rococo" or "Gothic" garden seat

the back constructed of hoops, the seat pierced, the front and back legs of cabriole form.

Illustration: Janes, Kirtland & Co., Illustrated Catalogue of Ornamental Iron Work, New York, 1870, unpaged.

Group of terra-cotta planters with rams’ head handles, the bowl of each planter ornamented with laurel swags and stiff leaf motif

Wirework plant stand with single “basket” to hold a pot or pots on four simple legs, with x-form stretchers and scrolled feet

Illustration: Gilson, Wirework plant stand Special Catalogue of E. T. Barnum’s Wire Goods, Wire and Iron Work, Detroit: No. 29, Special Supplement, 1881.

Wirework and wrought-iron garden gate

Pair of wooden architectural fragments in the Rococo Revival style, with central Green Man mask ornamented with foliate embellishments

Cast-iron and wooden settee, the cast-iron supports in the twig, or rustic, pattern, the seat and back composed of wooden slats

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Lewis House, former home of John N. Lewis

photograph of the Lewis House, located on Cruger Island Rd.