… Wendy Taylor, whose 43-year-old sundial sculpture stands on the banks of the River Thames near London’s Tower Bridge, told British news outlet The Independent that a holidaying art aficionado alerted her to the apparent replica [of the piece in Shanghai].
… The Chinese version, by an unspecified artist, has stood in a park next to the Huangpu river, which courses through the commercial hub, since 2006, Shanghai media reports said.
It has since been removed and [a] journalist saw park workers filling its circular base with plants and flowers on Thursday.
At the same time [journalists watched] workers removing two other statues, one of which resembled “Lute Being Played by Evert Taube”, which stands in the Swedish capital Stockholm.
The other bore a striking similarity to the centrepiece statue of the Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Might as well get all our spring cleaning done at the same time.
December 1st, 2016 at 9:25PM
In Shanghai the sundial went missing.
The Brits were all over it hissing.
And then for good measure
The locals took pleasure
In two further sculptures dismissing.
December 1st, 2016 at 9:29PM
adam: Excellent. And I’m sure there will be plenty of inspiration for future additional verses.
December 2nd, 2016 at 11:17AM
Imagine 8000 scaled-down, terracotta Davids, Michelangelo or Bernini style, take your pick.