A British family is celebrating today after a small statuette of an ostrich sold for a staggering £1.8m. The 15-inch bronze piece was made by the workshop of celebrated Flemish Renaissance sculptor Giambologna in the late 16th or early 17th century.
It was previously owned by politician and writer Horace Walpole whose family sold it in 1842 for £3,000 in today’s money. It was bought by John Dunn-Gardner, the self-titled Earl of Leicester, and had been in his family ever since.
His present-day ancestors had no idea of its importance or value until they called in the experts. What is your view? Have your say in the comment section Even then, Martin Millard and his colleagues at Cheffins Auctioneers in Cambridgeshire spent about two years
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