Guild Hall decoration question

[Urud.4925]

Hello guild decoration's expert! I need your help.

I'm considering to add a guild portal to my guild, but I don't want to remove the Palawa Joko's statue that I currently have on that spot (it was a gift of a friend of mine). Is it possible to place some decoration to cover the guild portal? Probably the rotating globe would be on Joko's.... bottom parts, so I should put some pedestrial in any case, like the awakened bone column.

 

Did you try to place something over the portal? Is it possible? Or it goes on top of it?

And what happens if I keep the statue and I build the portal afterwards? Will the statue remain?