French Antique Limestone Wellhead

A French antique limestone wellhead with an imposing cylindrical silhouette and the kind of thickness that gives a piece permanence. The stone keeps deep tool marks from its making, softened now along the outer ridges by centuries of weather. The color moves from soft honey through warm linen to cool charcoal speckles, and it shifts noticeably as daylight changes across the curved face.

It measures 47 by 41 inches across, so slightly oval in plan, and 19 inches high. It is a reclaimed piece, sound, with the surface wear of its age, and extremely heavy; it ships on a pallet and is set by crane or forklift. Limestone of this density has stood through frost and sun for generations and will go on doing so.

It will take the center of a courtyard or the end of a garden axis as a freestanding piece, hold a large planting as a deep open-bottomed planter, or serve as the surround for a fountain with the pump inside. The stone wellhead is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask us for photographs and a delivered price.