Placed this and the smaller Sphere next to a matching vase and they went beautifully together! The only downside, which I found odd, is there is nothing to stop the balls from rolling. So to keep them “freestanding” you need to put something under them to prevent them from rolling (i.e. double-sided tape).

This is a nice sphere... I'm not sure if I would purchase again. You need to have at least 2 of these together for display purposes and they are expensive for that. Note that what looks like black in the picture looks more like navy in person.