Description
Pieces like these are commonly used to cap entrance pillars, piers, or garden walls for architectural decoration and protection.
This pillar cap would have been part of a larger piece, possibly having a sphere and its stand above it.
I think this may work really well as a stand or small plinth for a plant pot or chimney pot.
The prominent texture features fine, vertical parallel lines across the front face. This is a traditional “tooled” or “chiselled” finish hand-crafted by historical stonemasons using a mallet and pitching tool.
The dark grey, blackened exterior layer is a natural patina resulting from decades of atmospheric weathering, soot buildup, and organic growth like lichen. The lighter beige-tan tone showing at the chipped corner and base reveals the stone’s original internal coloring.
Dimensions:
20.5″ x 20.5″
Thickness – 8″
Top square – 16.5″ x 16.5″
Base square – 14″ x 14″
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