In the formal gardens of a French château, urns like this one stood along the gravel walks and terraces, planted up each spring and left to anchor the view the rest of the year. Found in Montpellier, it came out of a château in the Loire valley and dates to the 19th century, a cast-iron urn with a fluted body, scrolled handles, and a beaded foot. Sylvie brings it indoors and stands it on the floor by the window, planted or left empty, the patina left exactly as the garden made it.
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