Large garden basin in marble, 19th century

Important garden vase in sculpted marble from the Napoleonic III period, dating from the second half of the 19th century. This elegant ornamental piece features a classic silhouette inspired by the decorative vocabulary of antiquity, highly appreciated during the Second Empire. The flared bowl is richly decorated with a frieze of intertwined stylised palmettes, a motif inherited from Greco-Roman ornamentation and widely adopted in the decorative arts of the 19th century. The vase rests on a turned pedestal, which is itself set on a square base, giving the whole a beautiful stability and a sculptural presence ideal for a garden, terrace, or monumental interior. The marble has a light ivory background veined with grey, likely a Carrara-type marble or Italian statuary marble, frequently used for this type of ornamentation in the 19th century.