Indian Marble Fluted Bookend

Ribbed like a melon, with a lotus skirt and a tidy little ball on top.

This fluted marble bookend is from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, and is contemporary. Fluting is a pattern of parallel vertical grooves borrowed from classical columns, and it adds light and shadow to a surface without any need for added color. Smooth, creamy bookend with a rounded, fluted body capped by a ball finial. A ring of overlapping petals sits below, and two stepped, square plinths form the base. Light grey shading softens the glossy, even surface. It is 3 inches wide, 3 deep, 5.5 high and 0.03 in diameter.

Perfectly good at holding up books and looking pretty doing it.