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Susan
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The House Sparrow is an endearing, friendly garden bird with an almost all year round presence, sadly suffering a long term decline but recently held the top spot in Scotland in the most recent RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch.
Helped by individuals and organizations such as 'The Glasgow House Sparrow Project'
For 10,000 years, Sparrows and House Sparrows have been with us, for as far back as the Egyptian period and mentioned in Celtic Folklore.
More recently, they were characters included in Beatrix Potters first short story about Peter Rabbit ,and have various meanings in different cultures and religions, eg symbolic of the Godess of Aphrodite.
This Bird Sculpture is the female of the House Sparrow species, which has light grey plumage in the chest area, against the brown of the wings and back area, different from the male.
The ceramic bird is frost proof, so safe to be placed in an outdoors garden pot, but equally at home adding interest to an indoor House plant.
This item will be posted to you by Susan Wade French Ceramics within 5 days of receiving payment.
| Shipping destination | Cost | Additional items |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | £0.00 | |
| Europe
Italy, Greece, Cyprus, France, Spain, Finland, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Latvia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar |
£12.00 | |
| United States | £16.00 | |
| Rest of the World | £24.00 |
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Hand modelled, these House Sparrows start off as a solid ball of clay, textured and shaped to create wings and other fine details such as eyes, beak and individual feathers.
When leather hard, a light coloured slip is then brushed on to the form creating a slight texture of feathers, starting to define the head, wings and chest area before a first kiln firing.
The House Sparows are now much harder and can now have layers of metallic oxides and coloured underglazes, applied to the body before recieving a second kiln firing to a high frost proof temperature making this bird sculpure suitable for outdoors and indoors.
The House Sparrow is now fixed onto a wooden dowel rod that has been coated in linseed oil stained with umber coloured oil paint for waterproofing and a slight aged look to the wood.
This Bird Sculpture measures approx 7 cm in length, 4 cm at the highest point and approx 3.5 cm at widest point.
Overall height inclusive of wooden dowel is 33 cm, which can be shortened if required.
Designed by Susan Wade - French in Scotland
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