Details

About the Large Resin Lobster Ornament

The detail: a segmented tail, walking legs and two big claws, all in glossy red, with white netting looped around the body. It's a lobster ornament with net detail rather than a plain figure, so it looks like a catch on display.

Live European lobsters are dark blue-black and only turn red when cooked: the shell's red pigment, astaxanthin, is locked to a protein that turns it blue, and cooking breaks that bond. Real European lobsters can reach 50 to 60cm, so at 46cm this one is close to the size of a big real one. Its classic cooked red is what most people picture, which is why it reads instantly as seafood.

Where it earns its place: on a restaurant shelf or in a fish shop window, behind the bar of a seaside pub, on a kitchen dresser, or in the middle of the table on a seafood night. As a lobster ornament for restaurant displays it's eye-catching from across the room.

It stands on its walking legs with the body raised, the way a lobster stands on the seabed, so it sits steadily on a shelf, a bar top or a dining table without a stand.

Weight and material: heavy-duty resin, about 865g and 46 x 20 x 7cm. At under a kilo it's easy to move between a shelf, a table and a window display. It's a display piece, not a Christmas tree bauble: many lobster ornaments are small tree decorations, and this one is a 46cm statement.

As lobster decor it suits anyone who orders lobster whenever it's on the menu, a fisherman, or a coastal kitchen that needs one bold piece. For something smaller and more delicate, there's our glass lobster decoration.