{"product_id":"clear-front-facing-guardian-lion-resin-sculpture-30cm","title":"Clear Front-Facing Guardian Lion Resin Sculpture - 30cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lion in this resin sculpture sits square on all four feet and faces straight forward, which is the formal attitude rather than the watchful one. Its brow carries a raised crown, the eyes are wide and round beneath it, the mouth is open with the teeth showing, and a knotted collar crosses the chest. The mane is a stack of curled rows falling from the crown across both shoulders. Everything is colourless resin, polished throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Mane Cut in Rows Around a Crowned Brow\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eRows of curls are the most exacting thing to cut in a clear material. Each curl is a small hollow with an undercut lip, and in a colourless casting an undercut behaves like a lens: any roughness inside it goes grey and reads as dirt rather than shadow, so every hollow is polished internally with shaped points and the piece is checked against a dark ground where a grey patch shows. The rows also have to stay rows. A curl fractionally out of line breaks the rhythm across the whole mane, which is the first thing a buyer sees, so they are laid out from the crown downwards and a row is taken right across the mane rather than curl by curl. The teeth and the collar are the finest passages and are taken to a higher polish than the body, which is why they catch light when the mane does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA front-facing lion is made to be met head on, so it belongs where people approach it: a hall table facing the door, a console at the foot of a stair, a desk seen from across the room. Pairs flanking a doorway are how these are used, and what is priced here is one animal. At 30cm it suits a table or a broad shelf and it needs no plinth. A dark ground behind it gives the colourless body an outline; against glass or a pale wall the mane is all that reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFinish, the Facing Pair and Handling\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBespoke commissions take 5–6 weeks; standard pieces take 3–4. A mirror-image lion can be cut to make a traditional facing pair with it, at any scale. The animal is offered frosted in place of the polish, and gold, silver or copper leaf can be run through the body or held in the mane alone. Tints of amber, grey and green are made. A stone or timber plinth is added where the piece is wanted at a greater height. Any size is cut to order, up to the pieces we make for entrances. It ships as one item in a fitted crate, is lifted under the chest and the haunches rather than by the mane, and one person can place it. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA guardian lion seated square and facing forward belongs with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/lion-statues\"\u003elion statues\u003c\/a\u003e; rows of curls round a crowned brow lead to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and a colourless polished body joins our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/resin-sculptures\"\u003eresin sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOptically Clear Cast Resin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54018539684187,"sku":"R133","price":1822.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/R133.jpg?v=1791309106","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/clear-front-facing-guardian-lion-resin-sculpture-30cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}