French Antique Circular Limestone Slab

A French antique limestone slab cut as a circle, a little over two feet across and 3 inches thick, offered as the slab only. The surface is porous and time-worn, in a palette of warm oatmeal, creamy buff and soft ash gray that shifts as the light moves. The perimeter is a rough split face with the original tool marks still legible, along with a few natural fissures and a thick weathered patina that a new slab cannot imitate. The edges have softened where generations of use reached them.

It measures 27 1/2 inches in diameter and 3 inches high. It came out of France and has not been cleaned or dressed. Limestone of this density is unbothered by frost or heat and can live outdoors permanently; indoors it needs nothing at all. Two people can carry it.

At this size it is a side table top on an iron base, a garden platter beside a bench for a pot and a glass, or the top of a small indoor console. It would also sit well as a single round stepping stone in gravel. This limestone slab has sold. We usually have similar round slabs and stone table tops in the yard or on the water; ask and we will send what is current.