French Antique Limestone Trough

A French antique limestone trough, deep for its length, with thick walls and a simple box form that leaves the stone as the whole of it. The exterior is pale limestone white and warm greige, heavily marked with mossy green and rusty ochre lichen that follows the grain of the stone. The thick rim has softened to a rounded profile, the surface stays gritty and textured, and dark staining gathers in the interior corners.

It measures 29 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 15 1/2 inches high. The depth is what makes it useful for planting: roots have room here that a shallow trough would not give them. Condition is as found; the lichen is the surface, and we leave it alone.

Beside an entry it holds umbrellas, garden tools or seasonal branches; on a terrace it becomes a planter for herbs, grasses and trailing greens; in a courtyard it serves as a small still-water basin. It sits well with warm wood, aged brick and dark iron, which pick up its cool mossy tones. The limestone trough is in Marina Del Rey; come and see this stone trough by appointment, or ask us for photographs and a quote delivered.