{"product_id":"rearing-horse-honey-brown-marble-statue-160cm","title":"Rearing Horse Honey-Brown Marble Statue - 160cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA horse rears upon its hind legs, both forelegs raised and its mouth open. The mane falls along the neck in long crimped waves and the tail sweeps down to the base. A carved stump and a mass of drapery gather beneath the hind legs and take their weight. It stands on an oval base with a plain rounded edge. Deep honey-brown marble, paler beige where the light catches it, dark flow-banding beneath a faint translucence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Stump Is the Leg That Holds It Up\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA horse rearing on two legs is not standing on two legs. Marble has no tension to speak of, and an animal of this weight balanced on two hind cannons would crack across them at the first frost or the first knock. The stump and drapery mass behind is not decoration and not a period affectation - it is the third leg, and it is sized for the job before it is made to look like vegetation. That governs the whole schedule: the mass is left at full thickness until the very end, so the carver is working around a block of surplus stone for months, and only once the body above is finished and its true weight is known does the stump get cut back to the shape seen here. Cut it to size early and there is nothing left to correct with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney-brown marble is the strongest colour in this tranche and it wants a background it can separate from. Pale render, limestone, light gravel and clipped green all work; what does not is red brick, terracotta or a bed of copper beech, where the stone and the backdrop meet in the same register and the modelling disappears. At 160cm the raised forelegs come to head height and the animal reads from below. The flow-banding runs strongest through the barrel and the haunch, so a position that shows the flank rather than the chest gets more of the stone. Low sun warms it further and flattens the banding; flat light is where it reads best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Warm Stone That Needs Its Own Wall\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighteen to twenty weeks. Leaving the stump and drapery mass full thickness governs the schedule, since the hind legs lean their whole weight on it. The oval base is turned and its edge rounded, then the animal roughed above it with the raised forelegs kept as heavy stubs. The barrel, the arched neck and the open mouth follow. The crimped mane is laid out in long waves down the neck and cut late, because a crimp once cut cannot be re-spaced. The stump and drapery are brought to their final section last of all, once the body's weight is settled. Neither the rearing figure nor its oval base carries a pin, a dowel or any filler. Some 2,390kg for figure and base together, craned across and bedded onto a prepared footing. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRearing beasts appear across \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and coloured stone throughout \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\u003e160cm\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":53836658475355,"sku":"MST-ANI-098","price":21554.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-098_1.jpg?v=1787173462","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/rearing-horse-honey-brown-marble-statue-160cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}