This is the garden sized version of Jonathan Sanders’s very popular  Wedgwood Museum Lying Girl sculpture.  Measuring 1.02 metres long, it makes a stunning addition to any garden, large or small.

Following the sell out success of ‘Lying Girl’ and the very popular ‘Large Lying Girl’, Jonathan was asked by a collector if he could please sculpt this piece large enough to display in a garden.

‘Garden Lying Girl’ was the result and now that the Wedgwood Museum have approved her, we are thrilled to introduce her to you. 

This piece is being cast in an edition of just 21 castings worldwide.  

Please note that she comes equipped with three standard fixings underneath in order to fix her to a plinth or other mounting, but bespoke mounting and fixing points can be fitted according to your requirements.  She is finished with a protective hard wax that makes her suitable for display both outside and inside.

Garden Lying Girl comes with a certificate signed and numbered by the artist and delivery can be arranged worldwide.

Delivery is free of charge, worldwide.  

Jonathan Sanders was invited by The Wedgwood Museum to create a range of contemporary bronze sculpture, inspired by its collections.

The Wedgwood Museum Collection is a unique record of the history of the Wedgwood company and of high quality English manufacturing. It includes a large range of manuscripts, correspondence, factory equipment, trials and original models as well as fine art by the likes of George Stubbs and Joshua Reynolds and, of course, ceramics. The basis of the collection can be traced back to the founder, Josiah Wedgwood I, who, conscious of the experimental nature of the work he was undertaking, kept his trials and experiments for posterity.

When Jonathan Sanders visited the museum, he says that he was ‘Utterly bowled over by the quality and beauty of so much of the collection, which represents the best in English design and production over the past 250 years’.

He was particularly entranced by the Domestic Employment series of Jasperware, depicting young children going about their day to day life, typically engaged in ‘domestic employment’. The depictions are a beautiful and some might say a slightly romantic view of how ordinary children experienced life in the 1780s, from the point of view of the aristocrat, Lady Elizabeth Templetown.

“I couldn’t help but compare those scenes with the lives of my own children”, he says, “and was inspired to sculpt a collection of pieces of them going about their every day life today.”

The resulting pieces are a depiction, by a contemporary artist, of the domestic life of today’s English child and Nelson & Forbes are proud to have the opportunity to produce them by hand in England, just as Wedgwood have done for many generations.

This bronze casting is a perfect recreation of Jonathan Sanders’s original sculpture and took four weeks to create. It bears the artist\’s signature and its own unique edition number. As every piece is cast by hand, each one is an original and so will be very slightly different to the last.

His range of small and large Wedgwood Museum sculptures have proved very popular with collectors and ‘Garden Lying Girl’ is the first in the collection to be created in a garden size.  If you would like to discuss the creation of any other of our sculptures in a size suitable for the garden, please call us and we will be happy to discuss this with you.

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