Foundation for a bronze statue 1

[archeng59]

A client purchased a large bronze statue and needs a foundation. Unfortunately, the sculptor provided no means of anchoring the statue to a base and will not help in any way. I can design the footing easy enough, but anchoring the statue to the footing is puzzling. The statue is hollow. I can cut holes in the statue, place vertical dowels in the statue, grout bars into the hollow voids and then braze bronze plates to cover the holes. I am concerned about damaging the statue during the hole cutting and brazing process. Also, concerned that the grouted voids will not provide the stability needed. This is a first for me. Anyone do this type of thing before? Any recommendations?

 

[cvg]

how about fill the entire cavity with concrete, embed your steel reinforcing and anchor rods, flip it over and then anchor the entire thing to a concrete foundation with dry pack mortar to level it up. You could use light weight concrete to reduce the mass a bit.

 

[drawoh]

archeng59,

Do you know why the horse is rearing on its hind legs?

Perhaps you can model some explanation for this in concrete, and use it to support the front of the horse!

JHG