{"title":"Birds","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"recycled-metal-cockerel","title":"Recycled Metal Cockerel","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA cockerel with its chest out and head up, built from overlapping panels of salvaged painted steel - mustard yellow, oxblood, cobalt, worn off-white - each cut to shape and welded so the edges stand proud like feathers rather than lying flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe tail is the thing. A fan of long curved blades sweeping up and back, wide enough to nearly double the apparent width of the bird. The head is dark metal with a serrated red comb, a hanging wattle, a pale beak and a punched eye. Fine wire legs drop to splayed three-toed feet, welded flat so it stands on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe paint isn't applied - it is whatever was already on the metal when it reached the workshop. Which means the colours land differently on every bird, and you won't get the one in the photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmall\u003c\/strong\u003e — 17 × 8 × 21cm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e — 18 × 10 × 25cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe strongest colour in the range, and the piece that pulls a shelf together when everything around it is white and gunmetal. Good on a kitchen worktop, dresser or hall table, and fine outdoors on a wall top or step.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":54666474029393,"sku":"MBH-MW-006","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":54666474062161,"sku":"MBH-MW-011","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/04_a13bd5f4-7289-4ec2-9887-5c5330b7b1a0.heic?v=1787493019"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-chicken","title":"Recycled Metal Chicken","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA hen with a full belly and a settled stance, built from panels of chalk white salvaged sheet curved together into a rounded body. Wing feathers are cut and welded proud along each flank so they stand clear and break up the profile rather than lying flush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe head and neck are worked in dark oxidised metal against the pale body, with a serrated red comb, a wattle under the beak and a punched eye. Rivet heads sit visible across the breast and wing. Fine wire legs drop to long splayed toes, welded flat so she stands on uneven ground and throws a spidery shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe crazing, staining and wear on the panels came with the metal. It hasn't been added and it hasn't been cleaned off, so the markings land differently on every bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmall\u003c\/strong\u003e — 17 × 12 × 17cm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e — 22 × 17 × 24cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood on a kitchen worktop, dresser or windowsill, and fine outdoors on a step, wall top or among low planting. Best as a group with the cockerels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":54666670965073,"sku":"MBH-MW-007","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":54666670997841,"sku":"MBH-MW-014","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/7.heic?v=1787493727"},{"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\/birds.oembed","provider":"Mbira Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}