BBC Antiques Roadshow guest shuts down expert's huge valuation on 'priceless' sculpture
dailyrecord.co.ukA BBC Antiques Roadshow guest was in disagreement following the valuation of a remarkable bronze sculpture. The unique item had been carved by the woman's mother in the 1900s.Programme host Fiona Bruce paid a final visit to Swanage Pier in Dorset during the latest episode.
Expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan was tasked with evaluating the item and gushed over the sculpture, the Mirror reports.He said: "I absolutely love this portrait bust.
I think it's an amazing, skilful piece of work. I mean, it's a really beautiful sculpture. You've got to tell me all about this," as the guest replied: "It was carved by my mother when she was teaching in South Africa at a school in about 1925, she was there quite a few years.
She was there as a young woman about 23, to set up a school of sculpture and modelling at the invitation of the director of the Slade School of Art in London."The expert went on: "Slade was the epicentre of art at the time.
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