{"product_id":"pegasus-on-carved-cloud-marble-statue-250cm","title":"Pegasus on Carved Cloud Marble Statue - 250cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA winged horse springs forward from a bank of carved cloud, forelegs raised and head turned down. It wears a bridle, the mane is cut in short flame-like locks and the tail streams out behind. Both wings sweep back in long tiered feathers, with a second lesser pair set at the chest. Beneath it the cloud is cut as rounded lobes gathered about spiral volutes, more emblem than weather. The whole stands on a thin rectangular slab. White marble with a faintly warm cast, soft grey veining through body, cloud and slab.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Wing Is a Sail of Stone on One Edge\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wing is the most exposed thing a carver can be asked for. It is wide, it is thin, and it is held on one edge only - which in stone means every kilo of it is trying to snap the shoulder it springs from. This piece asks for two pairs. The large pair is roughed as thick slabs and left that way for months while the body beneath is brought down, because a finished wing on an unfinished animal is a wing waiting to be knocked off. Both are then thinned in alternation, never one to completion before the other, so the shoulders never carry a light wing on one side and a heavy one on the other. The feather tiers are laid out from the shoulder outward and cut last of all, and the lesser chest pair is left until the large ones are done and out of reach of the mallet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA leaping animal wants somewhere to leap towards. At 250cm nothing in the range stands higher, and the wings are far above the eye. That height is not incidental - the cloud bank lifts the horse clear of its slab, so the whole design assumes the viewer is below and looking up along the underside of the body. Give it a forecourt, a turning circle, the head of a drive, the centre of a wide lawn: somewhere it can be approached and walked around, because the wings read from behind as well as from the side. What it will not tolerate is a wall close behind it, which flattens both pairs of wings into the background and throws the whole silhouette away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eComposed to Be Looked Up At\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-six to twenty-eight weeks, the longest in this tranche. Reading the block for its warm drift decides which face carries the wings, and that comes before any cutting at all. The cloud bank is blocked as a solid mass and the slab dressed beneath it, then the horse roughed above, barrel and haunches first, the raised forelegs held as heavy stubs. The head and the flame-cut mane follow. Both wing pairs are thinned in alternation and their feather tiers cut last, the chest pair after the large ones. The cloud lobes and volutes are hollowed at the very end. Horse, cloud bank and slab take no pin, no dowel and no filler at any point. Some 9,118kg between horse and cloud bank, craned in two lifts onto a poured concrete foundation. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMythical beasts recur through \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and the very tallest work under \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/large-garden-statues\"\u003elarge garden statues\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":53836687081819,"sku":"MST-ANI-107","price":30245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-107_1.jpg?v=1787174869","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/pegasus-on-carved-cloud-marble-statue-250cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}