Garden bench in Marot style; Bank of stained pine. The narrow seat rests on cheeks and has a scalloped decorative piece with broken volutes; a symmetrical leaf motif with branches in the middle and brushes on the corners. The high back has a midfield; sculpted above and below; which shows relief trophies; hung on ribbons; above which turned-down knot motifs are tied together from below. Volute consoles inserted on either side. To crown acanthus leaves in the middle of two devoted broken volutes.; Hunting trophies; hunting; chase (hunting weapons; equipment; outfit); ornament derived from plant forms; Meer and Berg; anonymous; c. 1700 - c. 1750; wood (plant material); pine (wood); h 236 cm x w 202.5 cm x d 44.5 cm; Amsterdam Spinhuis; the female house of correction. The women imprisoned there for theft or begging spent most of their days spinning. Affluent citizens like these gentlemen administered these sorts of institutions. Thus was civic peace maintained.