Rose Bowl Vase | Anastasio Home x Janie Kruse Garnett

The rose bowl is a Victorian form — a low, open vessel made for roses cut short, and known across Europe as a potpourri bowl when it held the dried petals instead. Traditionally it carried a wire grid across the mouth to hold short, heavy stems upright; here that job is done by a single hole drilled into the base, which holds one short, top-heavy stem dead center without a frog.

It is carved as a hemisphere on a turned foot with a notched rim, in Emerald — a deep green marble veined in jade and teal — or Warm Oyster, a pale dove-grey marble, soft and cloudy. A bowl arranges differently than a vase: stems cut short and crossed lean on the rim and arch outward, so a single peony and a handful of asters make a full centerpiece, and the weight of the marble holds the lean. Between arrangements it keeps a vanity's small things in one place.

Janie's note: This was my first idea for the collection. My mother kept spiky metal frogs in the bottoms of her vases — the stuff of nightmares — so I drilled a single hole into the base instead, to hold a short, heavy, scented rose upright on its own. When it is not holding flowers it makes a fine cache-pot, or a fruit bowl. — Janie Kruse Garnett

Dimensions: 6" Diameter x 4" H

Janie Kruse Garnett designs jewelry on the logic of classical architecture — trained in art history, with Palladio, Inigo Jones, and the golden ratio among her working references. This collaboration carries that bench-scale precision into stone. Each vessel is drawn from a classical source — a newel-post finial, a mustard pot, a Victorian rose bowl — and engineered to hold flowers in practice: rounded lips where a stem might otherwise snap, wide bases that resist tipping, and enough marble weight to steady a tall, top-heavy bouquet. Every piece is carved in Indian marble by the artisans of our Rajasthan atelier in a limited production run.