Amazon provides as always very fast, unfortunately, was a bit on the first statue already canceled (Amazon delivered immediately a new one). The statue is transported eingwickelt in plastic in a wooden frame, there can easily cause damage to the side. The second delivery has a small scratch, but can not really tell.
In the garden, the statue does not act like a mass object but as a work of art.
Owners should rub the statues annually with marble or beeswax, so they are protected from UV.
For Amazon there are unfortunately no suitable base to which I have found in furniture Centrale.