{"product_id":"winged-dog-marble-memorial-statue-120cm","title":"Winged Dog Marble Memorial Statue - 120cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dog sits upright with a pair of feathered wings raised and spread behind it. The head is lifted and turned up, the ears hang long and the mouth is open. A pair of feathered wings rises and spreads behind, each cut in soft overlapping rows. The coat is cut in long flowing locks down the chest and along the tail, which curls out across the base behind. It sits on a shaped base carved as low rocky ground. Marble in a cool pale grey-white, matte and even, without strong veining anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhere the Coat Meets the Feathers\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis piece asks for two quite different textures to sit against each other without either spoiling the other. The coat is cut as long flowing locks, deep and soft-edged, running with the body. The wings are rows of overlapping feathers, shallower, crisper and running across it. Where the two meet at the shoulder there is a real risk that they blur into a general roughness and the animal loses both its dog and its wings at once. So the boundary is decided on the block before either texture is begun - marked as a line, not discovered as the carving proceeds - and the two are cut in separate campaigns with the frontier left slightly proud until both are finished, then brought down last so the locks end and the feathers begin at a clean edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dog with a pair of angel's wings is not a mythological beast; it is a memorial, and it is almost always bought for one particular animal. That is worth saying plainly, because it governs where it goes. At 120cm the head sits at waist to chest height, close enough to be met kneeling. A quiet corner of a garden, the end of a walk, beneath a tree, beside a bench, a spot the animal used - somewhere private rather than somewhere prominent. At 1,008kg it is the lightest piece in this tranche and the easiest to place, and it needs no more than a prepared pad beneath it. The upward-turned head reads best from slightly to one side rather than square on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Piece Made for Remembrance\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen to sixteen weeks. Choosing where the coat locks break against the feather rows comes first, so the two textures do not blur. The rocky base is blocked, the animal roughed sitting upon it, and both wings held as thick slabs behind while the body is brought down. The head is left oversized late because it is turned up and carries the whole expression. The coat locks and the feather rows are then cut in separate campaigns, the boundary between them left proud until both are done and taken down last. The curling tail is freed at the end. Dog, wings and base take no pin and no filler, the wings cut from the same block. Only 1,008kg, the lightest here, gantry-set and bedded onto a prepared footing. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinged animals gather in part of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/animal-sculptures\"\u003eanimal sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and remembrance pieces in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/headstones-memorials\"\u003eheadstones and memorials\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\u003e120cm\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":53836753633627,"sku":"MST-ANI-122","price":20441.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/MST-ANI-122_1.jpg?v=1787176877","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/winged-dog-marble-memorial-statue-120cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}