Indian Bowl with Ram's Head Motif

The ram's horns coil like seashells, matching the bowl it rests against.

This bowl with ram's head motif comes from Gujarat, India, and is contemporary marble. Gujarati stone carvers have long made basins, troughs and decorative bowls for homes and gardens, often adding animal heads as ornament. The bowl is carved as a lobed scallop shell with deep fluting radiating from the base. A ram's head lies at one end, with curled horns, a long muzzle and a calm, heavy-lidded eye. The marble is honey beige, softly mottled. It is 13.5 inches wide, 17.5 deep and 5.5 high.

A shell and a ram, sharing the same stone without argument.