{"title":"African Wildlife","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"recycled-metal-meerkat","title":"Recycled Metal Meerkat","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA meerkat standing sentry - up on its hind legs, chest forward, forepaws held loosely in front, head turned and tilted upward. The pose is the whole piece. At 27cm it's the tallest of the small work and it reads in silhouette from the other side of a room.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe body is a soft off-white with dark oxidised blotching across the chest, flanks and haunches, where the donor metal had worn through and the weld heat coloured the steel. It isn't a painted pattern - it's what the material did. The muzzle is dark metal with a punched eye and fine whiskers of drawn wire, the ears are small cut discs set flat to the skull, and a long tapered tail sweeps down and out behind to act as a third point of balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe blotching lands wherever the metal and the heat put it, so no two coats are the same.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e17 × 8 × 27cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGood on a hall console, shelf or windowsill, and better outdoors on a step, wall top or set among grasses where the upright stance clears the planting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54666813571409,"sku":"MBH-MW-008","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/05_aef9ec12-6374-4c2b-9868-7ef3f9d52db2.heic?v=1787494294"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-guinea-fowl","title":"Recycled Metal Guinea Fowl","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA guinea fowl standing tall on fine legs, neck extended, head raised. At 31cm it's one of the tallest pieces in the range and the silhouette is unmistakable - a heavy teardrop body carried high, small head, that distinctive helmet crest. If a Zimbabwean range has a signature bird, this is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe body is a smooth swelling form shaped from steel and finished in dark oxidised brown-black, then hand-painted all over with rows of small white spots that follow the curve of the flank and taper down the neck the way the real plumage does. Hundreds of them, one at a time. The head carries a bright red casque above the crown and a matching wattle under a pale hooked beak - the only colour on an otherwise dark bird. Fine banded legs run down to long splayed toes, welded flat and set wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe spots are placed by eye, so the pattern falls differently on every bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24 × 18 × 31cm.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood on a hall console, dresser or wide windowsill, and strong outdoors on a path edge or among grasses, where the spotted body reads clearly against green.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54674664456529,"sku":"MBH-MW-016","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/1_a0432506-36d6-4148-a0f5-e1230f23daf0.heic?v=1787574268"}],"url":"https:\/\/mbirahome.com\/collections\/african-wildlife.oembed","provider":"Mbira Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}