{"product_id":"pegasus-winged-horse-white-marble-statue-200cm","title":"Pegasus Winged Horse White Marble Statue - 200cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA winged horse rears from a bank of carved waves, forelegs lifted and head turned outward. The mane is cut in short flame-like locks, both wings sweep back from the shoulders in long tiered rows of feathers, and the tail streams out behind. The water beneath is cut as stylised scrolls curling into volutes, more pattern than sea. The whole stands on a plain stepped plinth. White marble, faint grey drift crossing the wave scrolls and the plinth beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFitting a Rearing Horse Down Onto Finished Water\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe order here is the opposite of what it looks like. The animal appears to spring from the water, so the instinct is to carve the animal and let the water gather beneath it. In practice the wave bank is blocked out and brought close to its finish first, because it is the piece's whole structural base and the figure has to be seated down onto something that will not move afterwards. The rearing body is then cut to meet a surface that already exists, which means every hoof, fetlock and trailing hind leg is fitted to a fixed line rather than the line being adjusted to suit them. The two wings are the last major cut and the most careful: each is a wide sail of stone standing clear on one edge, and they are thinned in alternation so the piece never carries a heavy wing on one side and a finished one on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rearing winged horse is a piece of theatre and it is wasted where it can only be seen from one side. At 200cm the rearing head sits well overhead, which is what the pose is composed for. Give it a circuit: an island in a turning circle, the centre of a lawn, the head of a formal walk, a courtyard that can be crossed. The profile carries the wings and the profile is what most people will see first, so face it across the line of approach rather than along it. Near water it doubles, and the carved waves beneath make that reading explicit. It holds its own against render, brick, clipped hedge or gravel; what it will not do is sit quietly in a border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Piece That Wants an Approach\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-four to twenty-six weeks, the longest in this tranche. Blocking the wave bank solid comes first, because the rearing figure has to be fitted down onto a finished mass. The plinth is dressed and the wave scrolls cut and hollowed to their volutes, then left. The horse is roughed above them, the barrel and haunches first, and the rearing forelegs held as thick stubs for as long as possible. The head and the flame-cut mane follow. Both wings are thinned in alternation, feather rows laid out from the shoulder outward so the tiers stay even, and the streaming tail is undercut last. Figure, waves and plinth take no pins and no fillers, the plinth bedded dry beneath. Some 4,668kg between figure and plinth, craned in two lifts onto a poured concrete footing. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMythical creatures gather within \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and the largest of them 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\u003e200cm\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":53836658409819,"sku":"MST-ANI-097","price":30662.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-097_1.jpg?v=1787173460","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/pegasus-winged-horse-white-marble-statue-200cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}