Essex Bowl

Essex Shallow Round Bowl Cast Stone Planter

The Essex Bowl is a modern, shallow round cast stone planter that combines contemporary style with exceptional durability. Popular among designers, this versatile planter is ideal for use as a standalone planter, a fountain, or even a fire feature. Optional feet are available to raise the planter for added visual impact and flexibility in design.

Available in three sizes—28", 36", and 48" diameters—the Essex Bowl offers ample space for striking plant arrangements or architectural installations. Crafted from cast stone, these planters replicate the look and feel of natural cut stone while providing superior strength, weather resistance, and long-lasting beauty.

Essex Bowl Planter Specifications

About Nichols Bros. Cast Stone

The Essex Bowl planters are made from premium cast stone, a concrete-based material designed to simulate natural cut stone. Nichols Bros. uses a zero-slump dry cast process with the Vibrant Tamp Method to ensure a dense, high-quality product. Reinforcements such as galvanized aircraft cable, rebar, or non-ferrous pipe are used in larger and mid-size bowls to enhance strength and durability.

Cast stone is made with Portland cement, multi-sized aggregates, inorganic pigments, approved admixtures, and water, creating a product that is strong, weather-resistant, and abrasion-tolerant. All Nichols Bros. cast stone products meet the Cast Stone Institute architectural standards.

Versatile Design Uses

The shallow, wide design of the Essex Bowl makes it ideal as a decorative planter, a stunning fountain base, or a functional fire bowl. Optional feet allow you to elevate the planter for dramatic visual impact, while its timeless modern style complements both residential and commercial landscapes.

All cast stone products ship via LTL common carrier and are made to order. Due to the custom nature of these high-quality pieces, they are non-returnable.

Using the Essex Bowl as a Fire Bowl

Because of our improved mix design and integral reinforcing, we offer a 10-year limited warranty on our dry cast stone products, assuming proper installation and maintenance. A very important factor in planter performance is drainage. Our planters are made with drain holes and they must be utilized. With every order we ship installation instructions and small rubber squares to act as spacers or pot feet. These are to lift the bottom of the planter 1/4” – 3/8” off the ground to allow proper drainage. If water is allowed to collect in the container it can lead to efflorescence and in extreme cases of ice buildup, can cause the planter to crack. The warranty is limited to manufacturer’s defects and does not cover damage from improper maintenance or installation, mishandling, collision or other misuse.

We do not guarantee our containers from failure due to other actions which might befall the products, such as being struck, dropped or otherwise abused.

Nichols Bros. Stoneworks reserves the right to request the return, for inspection and analysis, to the Snohomish, WA location, any product for which failure is claimed, with the return packing and shipping costs incurred being borne at least initially by the claimant.

Whether or not the product is returned, any claim must be made in writing and include a full description of the location of the container, when it was most recently moved to the location where failure was first noted, its contents immediately prior to its failure upon its environment and possible cause of its failure.

Upon their review of the written claim and/or the product itself, and based upon their experience and results of any outside scientific analysis they choose to employ, if, in the sole judgment of Nichols Bros. Stoneworks the container is determined to have failed, Nichols Bros. will ship to the claimant a new, replacement container of the same size and design, at Nichols Bros. Cost, and at the same time refund the costs incurred by the claimant to have had the failed product packed and shipped to Nichols Bros.

If, on the other hand, in Nichols Bros.’ sole judgment the product failure is determined to have been caused by something other than manufacturer’s defect, Nichols Bros. will not be required to replace the container or to reimburse for the packing and shipping of the container for their inspection. Further, Nichols Bros. may, at its option, charge back any out-of-pocket costs incurred by them in determination of the cause of the failure; those costs do not exceed the initial price paid by the claimant for that container.