{"product_id":"couchant-wolf-white-marble-statue-100cm","title":"Couchant Wolf White Marble Statue - 100cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wolf lies couchant with its forelegs stretched out and its head raised and turned aside. The ears are erect and pointed, the muzzle long and wedge-shaped, the mouth slightly open. A heavy ruff of long carved locks falls from the neck across the shoulder and the brush tail is curled along the near flank. It lies on a stepped rectangular plinth whose face carries an incised lozenge lattice. White marble, grey veining branching in fine dark lines across flank, haunch and plinth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Lattice Struck After the Animal, Not Before\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lozenge lattice on the plinth face looks like the simplest work on the piece and it is the last to be marked out. The reason is arithmetic: a lattice only reads as a pattern if the lozenges come out whole at both ends, and the length available is not known until the animal above has been finished and the plinth trimmed to suit it. Strike the lattice first and the final trim cuts a lozenge in half at one corner, which is the kind of small wrongness that nobody can name and everybody notices. So the face is left plain, the animal is carved, the plinth is brought to its true length, and only then is the spacing stepped off from the centre outward so that whatever error remains is split evenly between the two ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 584kg and a metre long this is the one animal in this tranche that an ordinary building will take without a structural conversation - a hall, a wide landing, the foot of a staircase, an orangery, a library. At 100cm along its length this lies low and is read from above and from the side. A couchant animal is a companionable thing rather than a monument, and it suits being come upon at close range: beside a doorway, at the end of a passage, flanking a hearth. The ruff is the deepest carving on the piece and it wants raking light across it rather than flat light from the front, so a position near a window at an angle does more for it than one facing the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece That Fits Indoors\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve to fourteen weeks. Striking the lozenge lattice on the plinth face waits until the animal above is done, so its spacing answers the finished length. The plinth is dressed and squared, the animal roughed lying upon it with the forelegs left as thick bars. The body and haunches come down next, then the raised head and the wedge muzzle. The ruff is cut late and deeply undercut, lock over lock, because it is the passage that gives the animal its character and the one most easily ruined by a heavy hand. The lattice is struck last. Neither the animal nor its lattice plinth carries a pin, a dowel or any filler. Only 584kg, which a gantry and four people will bed onto a prepared pad without much ceremony. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCouchant animals appear across \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and indoor-scale work sits in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor 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\u003e100cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBase\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eIncluded\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHand-Carved Natural Marble\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53836687180123,"sku":"MST-ANI-108","price":9942.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-108_1.jpg?v=1787174871","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/couchant-wolf-white-marble-statue-100cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}