{"product_id":"standing-bactrian-camel-grey-marble-statue-250cm","title":"Standing Bactrian Camel Grey Marble Statue - 250cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA two-humped camel stands four-square, head raised and turned to the near side. The mouth is closed, the ears are small and set back and the eyes are heavy-lidded. The neck rises in a long shallow curve and both humps stand proud. The coat is smooth over most of the body with tufted hair worked at the elbows and behind the knees. No slab and no plinth - the four feet stand on whatever you set them on. Marble, pale grey and near-neutral, rust and ochre staining across shoulder and flank. The surface is a fine even matte stipple rather than a polish, and the note below says what that is and is not. The palest passages run close to white where the light catches them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTwo Humps Out of One Block\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA camel is an awkward animal to get out of a block, and the humps are why. They are the highest points on the piece and they are also the thinnest in section relative to what is under them, so they have to be planned from the raw stone: set them where the block is deepest and the animal ends up too short, set them wrong the other way and there is not enough stone left to carry the neck. The neck is the second problem - a long shallow curve carrying a heavy head, cantilevered forward off the shoulder. So the sequence is fixed: humps and neck are set out on the raw block together before a single cut is made, the neck is left oversized while the barrel and legs come down, and it is brought to section only when nothing above it can move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe surface here is not a polish. It is a fine, even, matte stipple - close-set small pits over the whole animal - and it reads as a weathered stone rather than a new one, which for a camel is more or less the point. At 250cm the head is well overhead and the humps sit above the shoulder. We are asking the workshop whether that stipple is the stone's own grain or a surface treatment, because the two are hard to separate at any distance, and we would rather ask than guess. It suits gravel, sandstone, brick and open lawn, and it wants distance: at this height the animal reads as a silhouette from thirty paces and the stipple only comes in close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Fine Stipple, and an Open Question\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-six to twenty-eight weeks. Bringing two humps and a long neck out of one block governs the whole sequence. The humps and the neck are set out on the raw block before anything is cut. The barrel and the four legs are brought down with the neck left oversized, the feet kept heavy since they carry the whole animal and there is no slab beneath them. The neck is then brought to section, the head cut, and the tufted hair worked at elbow and knee. The stipple finish goes over everything last. One block from nose to tail, unpinned, undowelled and free of filler. Some 9,118kg on its own four feet, craned onto a poured concrete foundation. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesert animals are few in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and standing beasts among \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/large-garden-statues\"\u003elarge garden 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\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":53851578499419,"sku":"MST-ANI-161","price":29550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-161_1.jpg?v=1787301587","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/standing-bactrian-camel-grey-marble-statue-250cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}