Indian Planter with Zigzag Motif | Jaspar

Red lightning, set into white marble, and it holds a fern.

This planter with a zigzag motif comes from Gujarat, India, a contemporary piece in white marble with jasper. Indian stoneworkers have long cut hard colored stones and set them into marble, a craft known above all from Mughal era building, and here it is put to use on a garden vessel. Rows of red zigzag lines wrap the round body under one straight band. The neck flares into a thick rope-twist rim. Pale tan veins wander through the marble. Twenty inches high and twenty across.

A fern could do a great deal worse.