A Mid-20thC Cast Composition Stone Scallop Shell Bird Bath sub-Architectural & Garden in 1882) purchasing the Minneapolis

in 1882) purchasing the Minneapolis based "Wernicke Company"

This Windsor shows its English origin by the fact that there are few turnings to the legs and stretchers and the arm supports are curved not straight and turned like an American equivalent would be

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The iron strapwork braces are of a wonderful colour too and would have been used as walnut could not be bent in the way that

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A Mid-20thC Cast Composition Stone Scallop Shell Bird Bath sub-Architectural & Garden in 1882) purchasing the MinneapolisOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1950 60Width: 21Height: 24Depth: 19 (all at extremities & on ebonised stand) The well modelled cast stone bird bath, modelled as an open scallop shell on a spiral turned socle column and plinth base; with an added associated ebonised plinth base, the whole surviving from the middle of the twentieth century. The bird bath is in three sections so it is easily moved. It has weathering