Indian Marble Fluted Bowl

Shallow, many-lobed dish with the look of a frozen splash.

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. Thin-walled dish with a lobed rim and a faintly rippled interior. The gray stone shows misty variations and a few hairlike lines near the center. The overall shape sits low and wide. It is 12 inches wide, 12 deep and 2 high.

Shaped like a bloom, behaving like a dish.