set on a pedestal

The fibreglass structure was set on a pedestal and had four symmetrical wings.

Their Philadelphia firm famously proposed a monumental red apple set on a pedestal in the place of the Times Tower.

To one side of the dish is a small conch shell set on a pedestal; to the other, a small silver handbell.

They passed through a covered passage into a little garden overgrown with laurels and gnarled old pepper trees; there was a fountain with gold fish, and green arums were springing up about a broken faun’s head set on a pedestal of verd’ antico.

At first he voted with the Girondists, attacked Robespierre, "a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal," and at the trial of the king voted with the Mountain for the king's death "without appeal and without delay."