''Still Water'' is a 2011 outdoor

bronze sculpture Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...

of a horse's head by Nic Fiddian-Green, located at

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, United Kingdom. The piece was commissioned to replace an earlier and similar, but slightly smaller, work, ''Horse at Water XV''. This was installed at the same site temporarily, but then moved to Daylesford, Gloucestershire, the home of Sir Anthony and Lady Carole Bamford, who had commissioned it. In 2012, Fiddian-Green cleaned the sculpture himself, using a

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Trivia

In 2020,

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

installed a similar sculpture in

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Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

. In the center of At-Bashy village in Kyrgyzstan the small copy is located by local community as the name of the At-Bashy village is literally translated as “horse’s head” in one of the versions. File:The horse head sculpture in At-Bashi (Kyrgyzstan).jpg, The replica in At-Bashi, Kyrgyzstan

References

External links

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Still Water
at NicFiddianGreen.com
What to see near Marble Arch: a guide to London by tube
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