rocaille

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(French; rock work) In Western architecture and decorative arts, an 18th-century style featuring elaborately stylized shell-like, rocklike, flower, fern, and scroll motifs. Originally designating the fanciful shellwork of artificial grottoes, rocaille came to be synonymous with Louis XV style. It is most often found in small pieces of furniture and such personal articles as snuffboxes. The term "Rococo" combines "rocaille" and "barocco" (Baroque)
The rococo system of scroll ornament, based in part on the forms of shells and water-worn rocks
Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens