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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." Read More Related Articles BBC Antiques Roadshow viewers in hysterics over 200-year-old 'muff chain' Read More Related Articles Scots guest on BBC Antiques Roadshow pleads 'don't tell my wife' after incredible valuation The expert went on: "Slade was the epicentre of art at the time. She would have studied all the greats to come up with this. She is a really brilliant sculpturist. This is over brimming with suppressed energy and power that sounds like an oxymoron. But she must have sat with the sitter, just to get to know him and to try and understand him and get inside his head and feel about who he was. "We have to remember that this was done in South Africa at a time where people that look like him were living in this world of suppression. This is the Phoenix that rises from the ashes of those awful times." Expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan was amazed by the item (Image: BBC) Ronnie praised the guest's mum Margaret, who is known as Peggy. He continued: "We've still got the excellence of your mother, here in this sculpture. I love the way she's done his tight curls on his head, she's left what we call the ads marks as the texture of his hair." Join the Daily Record's
WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. He then informed the guest that he believed "people would go crazy" for the sculpture before sharing that he believed the item could go for anything between £5,000 and £10,000 if it were to go on sale at auction. However, the owner stated the item was "priceless" and belonged in a museum instead of being sold. She said: "I think it's such a priceless in its own way to be honest," to which the expert quipped: "Good! So do I." "I feel it isn't a domestic piece, it should be in the public domain," she continued. "I think it is a museum piece, in my view," the owner added as the expert said: "This is the excellence of us, of human beings – that they can create works of art like this." Top TV news DI Neville Parker's replacement revealed Ant and Dec slammed for 'wasting food' Death in Paradise
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