{"product_id":"plain-couchant-camel-white-marble-120cm","title":"Plain Couchant Camel White Marble - 120cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Bactrian camel lies couchant with its head turned back over the shoulder. Both humps stand up and tuft at the crown, and a heavy ruff falls from jaw to chest in long waved locks cut clear of one another. The tail curls tight at the near haunch. There is no saddle-cloth and no harness anywhere - the animal is left entirely plain. It lies on a thin rectangular slab. Brilliant white marble crossed by soft blue-grey veining in fine branching threads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eNothing to Hide Behind\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrnament is forgiving. A medallion, a girth strap, a fringed cloth all give the eye somewhere to go, and a passage of modelling that is merely adequate will pass unnoticed beside them. This animal has none of that: no cloth, no harness, no banding anywhere, so every square inch of it is the modelling of a camel and nothing else. That makes it the harder of the two to carve well and the easier to carve badly. The consequence in the workshop is that far more time goes into the transitions - the fall of the neck into the shoulder, the set of the folded knees, the way the hump roots meet the back - because those are what a viewer with nothing else to look at will look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the plain twin of our medallion camel, and the choice between them is really a choice about sightlines. Where a piece is seen from above and close to, the ornamented one gives more. Where it is seen in profile, from across a lawn or along a terrace, the silhouette is all that survives the distance and the ornament is wasted - and this is the one to have. At 120cm the turned head sits low, so the whole animal is met looking down. A lawn, a long border, a courtyard, the length of a terrace, a gravel forecourt. The blue-grey veining is fine and branching and reads at close range only, so it is a bonus rather than a reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Version for a Profile\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen to eighteen weeks - the same as the ornamented version, the time going into modelling rather than ornament. With no cloth or harness anywhere, the whole piece rests on the modelling of the beast. The slab is dressed and the animal roughed lying upon it, the folded legs a solid mass and both humps blocks. The barrel is brought down and then reworked: the neck-into-shoulder fall, the set of the knees and the hump roots are each taken further than they would be under a cloth. The head, turned back over the shoulder, is cut once the barrel is settled, and the throat ruff undercut last. Nothing on this animal is applied, pinned or filled - it is one block and no more. Only 1,008kg all told, which a gantry will bed onto a prepared footing. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResting beasts are common in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and plain white stone \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\u003e120cm\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":53841770479963,"sku":"MST-ANI-176","price":15296.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-176_1.jpg?v=1787232294","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/plain-couchant-camel-white-marble-120cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}