{"product_id":"small-horse-head-bust-white-marble-60cm","title":"Small Horse Head Bust White Marble - 60cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA horse's head is carved as a bust, the muzzle dropped and both ears pricked. The nostril is flared and the eye open beneath a defined brow. The mane is cut in long combed grooves sweeping back from the crest down the near side. The neck is cut off cleanly and seats onto a stepped square plinth. White marble with visible grey banding through muzzle, cheek and neck alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Neck Cut Off Square\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat separates a bust from a broken statue is the cut at the bottom of the neck, and it is the single most exacting surface on the piece. It must be dead flat and dead square to the plinth, because any error shows twice over: the head tilts, and the joint line reads as a gap. It must also be a deliberate-looking termination rather than a fracture - a clean plane, sharply arrised where it meets the modelled neck, with no rounding and no chamfer to soften it. So it is sawn and lapped flat rather than carved, checked against the plinth face with a straightedge, and cut BEFORE the head above it is finished, so that the whole modelling of the head can be set true to a datum that already exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 60cm and 126kg this is a piece for a surface rather than for a floor, and two people can carry it there. At 60cm this belongs on something rather than on the floor - a table or a plinth. A console, a hall table, a pier cap, a broad sill, a low plinth, a library shelf that will take the weight. Indoors is where it does best: the grey banding through the muzzle and cheek is the most interesting thing about the stone and it wants seeing from a pace away, which is not how anything in a garden is looked at. It reads best in three-quarter view rather than in strict profile, where the dropped muzzle and the combed mane are both in play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSixty Centimetres Wants a Surface\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen to twelve weeks, the shortest lead time in the range. Cutting the neck off cleanly and square is what makes a bust read as a bust and not a fragment. The plinth is dressed and the neck plane sawn and lapped flat and square to it. The head is then roughed to that datum, muzzle and jaw first, the ears held as stubs. Eye, nostril and brow wait until the head's planes have stopped moving, and the combed mane grooves are struck at the very end, sweeping back off the crest. Neither the bust nor its stepped plinth carries a pin, a dowel or any filler. Only 126kg, a two-person lift, bedded onto a prepared pad or set on any firm shelf. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall carvings are few among \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and desk-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\u003e60cm\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":53837288341851,"sku":"MST-ANI-145","price":7508.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-145_1.jpg?v=1787180539","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/small-horse-head-bust-white-marble-60cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}