{"product_id":"standing-stag-white-marble-statue-220cm","title":"Standing Stag White Marble Statue - 220cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stag stands head raised beneath a full spread of antlers, one hind leg set back. The rack is pierced between many of its tines, the neck carries a shaggy ruff, and the flank and haunch are modelled smooth with the short tail lifted. It stands on carved rocky ground which spreads to a shallow oval base. Brilliant white marble, unmarked, with no veining legible in animal, antlers or base.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHow Much Stone a Rack of Antlers Can Carry\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eA full spread of antlers in marble is the least sensible thing anyone ever asks a carver for, and it is the reason this piece takes as long as it does. Every tine is a cantilever - stone held out into open air on a joint no thicker than the tine itself - and the openings bored between them are what make the rack read as antler rather than as a plate. The limit is not artistic but arithmetic: each tine can only be thinned until the section at its root will still carry the weight beyond it, and that calculation is done tine by tine, from the tips inward, because losing one at the root costs the whole rack. The openings are bored while the antlers are still oversized blocks, and everything after that is careful subtraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rack is two-thirds of this animal's silhouette and all of its difficulty, so put it where the rack can be seen. At 220cm the antler tips go far above the eye and are read against the sky. Against sky, water or open lawn every bored opening reads as air and the antlers separate into individual tines; against trees, a hedge or a wall the same rack collapses into one grey mass and the work vanishes. So this is a piece for an eminence - the crest of a slope, an island bed, the end of a long view, a paddock rail. It is also, at 220cm and brilliant unmarked white, the most visible thing in this range from a distance, which is either the point or a reason to think twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAntlers Belong Against Sky\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-six to twenty-eight weeks, and the antlers are most of it. Boring between the antler tines is the whole difficulty, and it decides how much stone the rack can carry. The oval base and rocky ground are dressed first, then the animal roughed standing on it with legs left as thick columns and the antlers as two solid blocks. Body, neck ruff and head follow. The rack is bored while still oversized and then worked down tine by tine from the tips inward, the section at each root checked as it goes. The legs are freed last. Nothing in stag, antlers or base is pinned or filled - the rack is cut from the block. Some 6,214kg all told, craned across in a single lift onto a poured concrete footing. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntlered beasts stand among \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and the tall ones within \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/life-size-large-statues\"\u003elife size large 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\u003e220cm\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":53836753469787,"sku":"MST-ANI-120","price":29202.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-120_1.jpg?v=1787176873","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/standing-stag-white-marble-statue-220cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}