Antique Italian Stone Table and Base

An antique Italian stone table made from a millstone, a wide circular top more than six feet across set on a solid cylindrical base. The top is limestone in bone cream, earthen tan and ash gray, with sharp radial marks fanning out from the square hole at its center, left from its first life grinding grain. The outer edge is blunt and worn. The base carries a set of initials scratched into its coarse face a long time ago.

The top is 74 inches in diameter and 5 1/2 inches thick; the base is about 23 1/2 inches in diameter and 25 inches high, which brings the table to 30 1/2 inches overall, standard dining height. Both pieces come from Italy. The base is sold separately, so the top can go on a frame of your own if you prefer. The top is set by crane.

It seats eight as a dining table in a tall room or a gallery, holds a collection of large ceramic vessels, or anchors a wide garden terrace where it can stay out all year. The stone table is in Marina Del Rey; come and walk around it, or ask us for photographs of the surface and a quote for top and base delivered.