Antique Belgian Bluestone Sink

A compact, deep antique stone sink in Belgian bluestone, a heavy block with an irregular shape that looks as if it came straight out of an 18th-century farmhouse scullery. The face moves through blue-gray and charcoal with scattered honey-gold flecks, like lichen turned to stone. Inside, the walls carry visible tool marks; outside the block is rough and unpolished. A rusted iron ring is set into one side, the kind of fitting a bucket or a tether once hung from.

It measures 19 1/4 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 10 1/2 inches high, a near-square footprint with real depth. It was reclaimed in Belgium and is sold as found, with the ring and the rust. We can drill a drain before it leaves the yard if the existing arrangement does not suit your plumber.

This bluestone sink will carry a powder room on its own, handle heavy washing in a guest bath, or sit in an outdoor bar or garden kitchen where the weather keeps deepening the patina. Smooth lime plaster or dark-stained oak gives it contrast; unlacquered brass brightens the gray, blackened steel echoes the ring. The stone sink is in Marina Del Rey; come and lift the lid on it, or ask for more photographs and a quote.