Among the 529 lots of offer at Thomson Roddick Auctions’ antiques and works of art sale on April 20 in Rosewell, near Edinburgh, is this pair of Oriental bronze cranes, consigned from a local Scottish collector. Measuring 6ft 7in (2.1m) tall, with incised and cast decoration, one crane is featured striding forward with its beak in the air, the other walking behind. They have spent many years in an outbuilding and come to auction uncleaned with years of guano built up. Estimate £1000-2000.
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