{"product_id":"clear-standing-dog-on-gold-flecked-resin-block-29cm","title":"Clear Standing Dog on Gold-Flecked Resin Block - 29cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis resin dog stands on all four feet with the weight even on each, the head level and forward, and a heavy tail rolled over one haunch. Its face is broad and wrinkled with the jowls hanging low. The body is colourless and polished with flakes of gold leaf caught through it, and it stands on a block of clear resin filled with the same leaf, so the glitter runs on from the animal into the block.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFour Legs and Four Points of Contact\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA standing animal has four separate places where it meets its base, and that is four times the difficulty of a seated one. All four feet have to bear at once: one fractionally high and the piece rocks, and on a polished block a rock is audible as well as visible. The soles are therefore ground on the finished animal against the finished block, in pairs and then all together, and the animal is bedded down only when all four touch. The rolled tail is the other slow passage. It sits hard against the haunch with a gap of a few millimetres behind it, and the inside of that gap has to take the same polish as the flank, which means narrow tools and a great deal of patience for a surface almost nobody will see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA standing animal reads from the side, where all four legs and the line of the back are visible at once, so it wants a surface people pass along rather than face: a hall table, a mantel, the top of a low bookcase. It needs a genuinely level surface, because four feet find any tilt that three would absorb. Keep it away from a bright downlight, which flattens the jowls into one mass; light coming in low from one side is what gives the face its folds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLeaf, the Block, and How It Comes\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eLead times run 5–6 weeks bespoke and 3–4 standard. Leaf can be run through the animal alone with the block left plain, or through the block alone with the animal left clear, which are two different objects. Silver and copper are made in place of gold. The block can be clear as here, tinted near black, or cut from white marble or a pale stone, and the animal is offered without a block at all. The body can also take an amber or grey tint. This is one animal, and a seated or a lying dog on the same kind of block makes a group of three with it. Greater scales are cut to order. Delivery is a single box, sleeved, and the animal needs nothing done to it; one hand will carry it. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dog standing square on a gold-leaf block belongs with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e; a broad wrinkled face and a rolled tail lead to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/figurative-sculptures\"\u003efigurative sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and gold carried from animal to block 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\u003e14.5cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBase\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16 x 14.5 x 14.5cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOptically Clear Cast Resin with Gold Leaf\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54018539094363,"sku":"R112","price":1888.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/R112.jpg?v=1791308355","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/clear-standing-dog-on-gold-flecked-resin-block-29cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}