{"product_id":"seated-elephant-on-coins-marble-statue-130cm","title":"Seated Elephant on Coins Marble Statue - 130cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack on its haunches an elephant sits, trunk curled high and front feet upon a stack of coins. Its mouth is open and the trunk arches right over the head. A fringed cloth with a scalloped edge and one hanging tassel covers shoulder and back. Beneath is a pedestal banded with lotus lobes above and below a frieze of rosettes and scrolling foliage. Brilliant white marble, the faintest grey drift only, polished to a soft sheen. One animal alone is what this price buys; two sit well together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Trunk Carried as an Arch\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trunk on this elephant leaves the face, rises over the top of the head and comes down behind it - an arch of stone with air on both sides and the head passing through it. That is a bridge, and a bridge cannot be repaired: since nothing sits behind an arch to cut back into if it goes.. So the whole arch is left as a solid mass of waste stone joining trunk to skull through the entire carving, and the animal is finished around it. Only when the body, the cloth and the pedestal are complete and the piece will not be turned again is the waste taken out - from both sides alternately, a little at a time, so the arch never carries a one-sided load.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 130cm and a little over a tonne this sits comfortably indoors as well as out: a hall, a reception, a landing, a shop entrance, a courtyard. It is also the piece here that most rewards close quarters - the coin stack under the front feet, the fringed cloth and the tassel are all small work. At 130cm the seated animal is waist-high, close enough for the coins to be counted. Give the raised trunk clear air above it; set under a low soffit or a stair the arch reads as cramped and the whole gesture is lost. Brilliant white wants something dark behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSmall Enough to Come Indoors\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen to sixteen weeks. Blocking out the raised trunk as a solid arch opens the work, and it stays solid until almost the end. The pedestal is cut, its lobe bands and frieze worked, and the bed dressed flat. The animal is roughed seated on its own block, the trunk arch left solid, and the haunches and folded legs brought to shape. The coin stack under the front feet is cut as part of the same block. The fringed cloth and its tassel are undercut next. The trunk arch is opened last, from both sides alternately. Animal and pedestal alike take no pins, no dowels and no fillers at any point. Near 1,282kg, the lightest here, 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\u003eSeated beasts are few within \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and indoor-scale work sits in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor 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\u003e130cm\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":53836584649051,"sku":"MST-ANI-093","price":15296.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-093_1.jpg?v=1787590634","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/seated-elephant-on-coins-marble-statue-130cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}