French Antique Limestone Trough

A French antique limestone trough with the solid, dug-out look of a vessel that has spent its life in a garden. The rectangular form has thick walls around a deep basin, and the exterior carries a soft palette of bone, cream and warm ash, with rust-brown mineral staining and mossy patches gathering along the upper edge. The surface is grainy and heavily pitted, the rim rounded by years of use, and inside the stone has worn smoother than the weathered outer walls.

It measures 41 inches wide, 21 1/2 inches deep and 14 1/2 inches high, low enough to run along a wall or a path without blocking anything behind it. Condition is as found; the moss and the rust staining are left as they are. We can drill a drain if you intend to plant it.

Planted with lavender, herbs or grasses it softens a terrace edge or a courtyard wall. Its basin also serves as a reservoir for a simple courtyard fountain, and indoors it holds firewood beside a hearth or branches in an entry. Pair the stone trough with aged brick, lime plaster, weathered timber or dark iron. The limestone trough is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see it by appointment, or ask for photographs and a delivered quote.