Fine Silver - 25th October 2017

Lot 712

By Anthony Elson

Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £420

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Description

By Anthony Elson, two modern silver clockwork eggs in egg cups,

London 1980 and 1981, no. 31/200 and no. 149/200,

the oxidised and silver-gilt egg cups, with an egg which pulls off to reveal a clockwork merry-go-round with a gilt canopy and a rotating cockerel and horses, the other reveals two seated bunnies, height 11cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Dr Venetia Newall.