Indian Marble Fluted Bowl

Little scalloped bowl wearing a thin skin of pale mist.

This fluted marble bowl is from Rajasthan, India, and is contemporary. Fluting is a series of parallel grooves, a decorative device used for centuries in architecture and objects of many cultures. Low dish with a ruffled outline and a soft central hollow. The surface is a milky gray, with faint clouds of darker tone and a few fine lines. The rim is thin and delicately curved. It is 9.5 inches wide, 9.5 deep and 1 high.

Quiet as a morning fog on a pond.