{"product_id":"displaying-peacock-pink-marble-statue-250cm","title":"Displaying Peacock Pink Marble Statue - 250cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA peacock stands with its tail fully displayed, the fan a great rounded screen behind. Each shaft of the fan is cut as a separate quill with its barbs combed either side and an eye at the tip, and the outermost feathers are pierced clear of one another along the rim. The bird stands small in front of it with both wings dropped and spread, the neck upright and three plumes lifting from the head. It stands on a low oval socle with a moulded edge. Warm peach-apricot marble, even through fan, bird and socle, cream where light falls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Fan Set Out From One Centre\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe displayed tail is nine-tenths of this carving and it is entirely a problem of setting out. Every shaft radiates from a single point behind the bird's tail root, and the eye reads radial symmetry with extraordinary precision - one shaft a degree out of true, or a hand's width longer than its opposite number, and the whole fan looks buckled. So the centre is established on the raw block first and every shaft is struck from it with a trammel, working outward in opposed pairs so that left and right are always cut in the same session and can be compared immediately. The barbs are combed along each shaft afterwards, and the outer rim - where the feathers are pierced clear of one another - is the last work and the most fragile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt two and a half metres the fan is not a detail on this piece, it is the piece: a rounded screen of stone two metres across, with a small bird standing in front of it. At 250cm the fan stands far overhead and reads as a screen rather than a bird. That means it behaves architecturally - it blocks a view, it closes a vista, it can end an axis the way a wall or a hedge does. Use it that way: at the far end of a walk, closing a courtyard, against a dark hedge that lets the pierced rim read as air. The peach-apricot stone holds against brick, render, gravel and dark planting on hue alone and needs nothing arranged behind it, though it will argue with white marble nearby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Screen More Than a Bird\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-six to twenty-eight weeks. Setting out the fan's radiating shafts from one centre governs the entire schedule. The socle is turned and the block stood, the fan's centre established and every shaft struck from it with a trammel in opposed pairs. The bird is roughed in front of the fan once the shaft layout is fixed, because its position is taken from the centre. The barbs are combed along each shaft, the eyes cut at the tips, and the pierced outer rim opened last of all. Fan, bird and socle come from one block, unpinned and unfilled throughout. Some 9,118kg with the fan behind, craned in one lift onto a poured concrete foundation. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisplay birds occupy a corner of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and coloured stone runs through \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/marble-sculptures\"\u003emarble 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\u003e250cm\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":53837359153499,"sku":"MST-ANI-155","price":31288.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-155_1.jpg?v=1787182810","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/displaying-peacock-pink-marble-statue-250cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}