French Antique Limestone Trough

A French antique limestone trough of heavy rectangular geometry and real volume, the kind that anchored a farmyard. The stone is a warm sand and soft cream, and its faces keep the soft tooling lines and tool marks of its making, worn by generations of open-air exposure into a thick, weathered texture. The walls are deep and protective.

It measures 63 inches long, 37 inches from front to back and 27 inches high, deeper than most farm troughs. That depth takes a small tree with room to spare, or a fountain reservoir with a pump hidden below the waterline. It is reclaimed, with the wear of a working piece, and very heavy; it ships on a pallet and is set with a crane.

A stone trough of this depth suits the center of a motor court, the end of a pool terrace, or a walled garden where it can hold a citrus tree. Set against a plain plaster wall its weight reads clearly. The limestone trough is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask us for photographs and a delivered price.