French Antique Limestone Wellhead

A French antique limestone wellhead with faceted sides, in a weathered mix of ash gray, warm sand and sun-faded honey that shifts as the light moves across the faces. The thick rim has been worn to a softened edge that asks to be touched. Below the lip the stone is dry and granular, deeply pitted and marked by the faint scars of old iron fastenings, with darker mineral deposits and spots of lichen mapping its time outdoors.

It measures 30 3/4 inches across and 19 1/2 inches high, with an opening of about 25 inches that runs the full height, so the piece is open top and bottom. The wear is honest and the structure is sound; it is a heavy piece that travels on a pallet.

The open ring suits a central water feature in a courtyard, with the plumbing hidden inside, or a raised planter that lifts an olive to eye level. Indoors, topped with heavy glass, it makes a low table of real weight. Against lime plaster or beside silvered teak, the facets read clearly. This stone wellhead has sold. We usually have other antique wellheads in the yard or on the water; ask and we will send photographs of what is current.