As a Los Angeles photographer, I'm contacted to photograph strange things.
And sometimes I'm contacted to photograph some of the most beautiful things. In this case these large statues were rolled into my studio so that I could capture definitive images of them before they were presented and presumably sold at a local art show.
These particular statues stood over 6 feet tall.
In some cases in my product photography I'm asked to create images with a sense of scale, but more often my clients simply need an image of a product that is appealing that will complement any text description that accompanies it.
In most cases, those text descriptions include the dimensions of the object and thus any sense of scale is not required.