{"id":286400,"date":"2026-02-16T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286400\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:19:07","slug":"horse-controversially-displayed-on-norwich-roundabouts-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286400\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse controversially displayed on Norwich roundabouts sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 10ft (3m) War Horse sculpture, which was previously displayed on roundabouts, has found a new home after it was sold at auction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work, created by Norfolk artist Damian O&#8217;Connor, proved controversial in 2017 when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-norfolk-42024339\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">county council called it an &#8220;obstruction&#8221;<\/a> for being displayed in areas around Norwich, including beside the Northern Distributor Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Made from steel, wood and reeds, the sculpture is said to commemorate millions of horses lost in wars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At a fine art, jewellery and interiors auction held at Mander Auctioneers in Sudbury, Suffolk, the sculpture was sold for \u00a3580. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 10ft (3m) War Horse sculpture, which was previously displayed on roundabouts, has found a new home after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-286400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}