{"product_id":"rearing-horse-brown-marble-statue-250cm","title":"Rearing Horse Brown Marble Statue - 250cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA horse rears with both forelegs lifted and its head turned, the mouth open. The mane lifts from the crest in long waved locks and streams back, and the tail streams the same way. The forehand is carried on a mass of carved cloud-scrolls rising from the slab, and the two hind feet stand on the slab itself. It stands on a thin rectangular slab with a plain squared edge. Marble in a warm tan-brown, with olive-green and grey drifting through it, softly polished. The colour here is the stone's own and not a finish - nothing on this piece is painted, leafed or gilded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Scroll Instead of a Strut\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rearing horse has two feet down and everything else in the air, and something has to carry the front half. The usual answer is a plain strut, which is honest and ugly. Here it is a mass of cloud-scrolls, which is neither - it is a structural member disguised as ornament, and it has to work as both. So the scroll is sized as a strut first, from the finished weight before that weight exists, and only then is it carved into scrolls, and never cut past the section the arithmetic allows. The carving is done last, when the mass above it is settled: the volutes are sunk into a block that has been standing there since the beginning of the job, holding the horse up while it was made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a warm tan-brown stone with olive-green and grey drifting through it, and the darker brown has settled into every groove the carver cut. At 250cm the raised head is well overhead and the scrollwork sits at the knee. That makes it easy against brick, terracotta, gravel, sandstone and timber, and hard against cool grey render or granite paving, where the warmth reads as a mismatch rather than a contrast. A lawn, the head of a drive, a courtyard, the end of a walk. The stone is softly polished rather than mirrored, so it holds its modelling in flat light and does not throw hot spots in full sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBrown Stone, and What It Sits Beside\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-six to twenty-eight weeks, and the support sets the order. Carrying a rearing horse on a scroll rather than a strut is what shapes the schedule. The slab is dressed and the scroll mass blocked at full section above it. The horse is roughed rearing over it, the two standing legs left heavy because they carry everything, and the lifted forelegs left thick until late. Body, neck and head come down, then the mane and tail are cut as separated waved locks. The scrolls are carved last, once the mass above them is known. Horse, scrollwork and slab are one block, with no pin and no filler anywhere. Some 9,118kg through the cloud-scroll support, craned onto a poured concrete foundation. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRearing horses are rare in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and brown stone sits among \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/garden-statues\"\u003egarden 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":53851577712987,"sku":"MST-ANI-109","price":30245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-109_1.jpg?v=1787301580","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/rearing-horse-brown-marble-statue-250cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}