{"product_id":"standing-elephant-in-olive-marble-statue-150cm","title":"Standing Elephant in Olive Marble Statue - 150cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurned three-quarters on, an elephant stands unadorned with its tail hanging in a carved tuft. Its ears are spread and folded, its trunk hangs and curls forward, and it carries no cloth or harness at all. The tusks are a pale stone against the olive body, and could not be more visibly separate. It stands on a thin pale slab with a plain bevelled edge. Olive-tan marble mottled with brown clouding, its slab a separate pale grey-white stone. One animal is what this price supplies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePlacing the Clouding\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis stone is heavily mottled - broad brown clouds drifting through an olive-tan ground - and there is no orientation of the block that avoids them. What can be chosen is where they land. A dark cloud across the eye reads as damage and kills the face; the same cloud across the shoulder or the fall of an ear reads as the animal's own hide and improves it, because a real elephant's skin is not one colour either. So the block is turned and wetted until the heaviest clouding falls on the body and the ears with the head left comparatively clear, and the animal is laid out from where the clouding falls rather than from the block's own square corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder two tonnes, and light enough for an ordinary floor without a thought - a hall, a landing, an orangery, a wide conservatory, as readily as a terrace. Indoors is also where the mottling shows properly; outdoors in bright light the browns and olives flatten toward one tone. At 150cm this is the smallest elephant here, and the only one an ordinary floor takes. Its pale slab is a separate stone and reads as a base rather than as part of the animal, which suits a floor where a coloured plinth would look intrusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe One That Fits Indoors\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen to eighteen weeks. Choosing where the darker clouding lands on the animal precedes the first cut entirely. The pale slab is cut and bevelled separately, then the animal roughed standing on it, legs kept as heavy columns. The barrel, the ears and the hanging trunk are shaped after that, the ears taken thin towards the end. The tail and its carved tuft are freed after the hindquarters are finished. Tusk sockets are bored last and the pale tusks seated into them, and the animal is bedded dry onto its slab. The animal takes no pin and no filler, and its slab is bedded dry beneath it. Near 1,969kg animal and slab together, gantry-borne and bedded onto a prepared pad. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnadorned animals stand within \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and mottled stone among \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\u003e150cm\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":53836584190299,"sku":"MST-ANI-090","price":25239.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-090_1.jpg?v=1787171645","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/standing-elephant-in-olive-marble-statue-150cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}