{"product_id":"marble-peacock-statue-two-designs-220cm","title":"Marble Peacock Statue - Two Designs - 220cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo entirely different peacock designs are offered here at one price. THE FIRST is a peacock perched on a slender fluted column, neck upright and crest erect, the long tail sweeping down the column and pooling on the floor in overlapping courses of eyed feathers. THE SECOND is a peacock forming the stem of a bird-bath: the body and tail flare down to a circular foot, and a wide shallow bowl sits above, carved on the outside with flowering branches and finished with a beaded rim. Either one is supplied at this price and you choose which. White marble, neutral and matte, with a fine sparse fleck and no crystalline sparkle. The fleck reads grey against the white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOne Price, Two Sets of Drawings\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of what we make has one design and one way of being set out. This has two, and they are not variations - a bird on a column and a bird holding a bowl are different jobs with different risks. The column design puts its difficulty in the tail, which leaves the block and runs along the floor as separated courses of feathers, each one a thin cantilever. The bird-bath design puts its difficulty in the bowl: a wide shallow dish has to be turned true and left thick enough to hold water and thin enough to look right, on a stem that is a bird rather than a column. So the workshop sets out whichever you pick from its own drawings, and the lead time and the sequence differ between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe choice is not only a matter of looks. The column design is a sculpture and nothing else; the bird-bath design is a sculpture that holds water, which means birds, algae, winter draining and somewhere reasonably level and reachable to keep it. At 220cm either design stands well above the head of the person looking at it. Both suit a lawn, a courtyard, the end of a walk or a formal garden, and the bird-bath wants planting round it rather than open paving. If neither design is what you had in mind, a bespoke peacock can be carved to your own drawing and is quoted separately - this price covers these two designs only.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eChoosing Between Them, or Neither\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty to twenty-four weeks, and it depends which design you choose. Two designs share one price, so the workshop sets out whichever one you pick. For the column design: the column and base are dressed first, the bird roughed above them, and the tail courses opened from the outermost inward and freed onto the floor last. For the bird-bath: the foot and the bird are roughed as one mass, the bowl blocked solid above and hollowed only when the stem beneath it is final, and the flowering branches cut last of all. Whichever design you take is one stone, unpinned, undowelled and unfilled. Some 6,214kg for whichever design you choose, craned onto a poured concrete footing. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirds perch throughout \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and water pieces belong with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/outdoor-sculptures\"\u003eoutdoor 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\u003e220cm\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":"Version 1","offer_id":53872387195227,"sku":"MST-ANI-142-V1","price":29202.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Version 2","offer_id":53872387227995,"sku":"MST-ANI-142-V2","price":29202.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-142_1.jpg?v=1787590639","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/marble-peacock-statue-two-designs-220cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}