French Antique Limestone Sculpture

A French antique limestone fragment we sell as a stone garden sculpture: a low, tapered wedge of stone that rests close to the ground and narrows toward a broken tip. The weathered outer faces are cool ash and smoky gray; where sections have broken away the stone inside shows a warmer creamy wheat. Deep chips, fractured planes and rough edges expose the grain. It is a piece of a much larger thing, though we do not know the building.

It measures 37 inches long and 12 1/2 inches deep, and about 9 1/4 inches high at its tallest point, falling to around 4 1/2 inches at the low end. It is one piece of limestone, heavy enough to stay put and light enough for two people to move. The breaks are old and stable.

Lay it along a garden border, set it beside a hearth, or put it on the floor of a hall against lime plaster, dark timber or pale gravel, where the warm stone inside the breaks comes forward. As antique sculpture goes it is as plain as they come. A stone garden sculpture this low travels on a single pallet. The piece is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask for photographs and a quote.