French Antique Half Moon Limestone Trough

A French antique half-moon limestone trough with a curved front and a flat back, made to sit against a wall or a facade. The limestone is naturally weathered, its surface open and softly textured, its color the quiet gray of French stone that has stood outdoors for a long time. The form is plain and the proportions are generous for a wall trough.

It measures about 36 1/2 inches wide, 25 1/2 inches deep and 17 1/2 inches high, which makes it the largest of the half-moon troughs we have handled recently. Condition was as found, weathered, with the wear of its working life and nothing filled or recut.

A half-moon of this size serves as a garden planter against a stone facade, as a basin beneath a wall-mounted water spout in a courtyard, or at a garden entrance with clipped greenery on either side. This antique limestone trough has sold. We usually have similar wall troughs in the yard or on the water; ask and we will tell you what is current.