Meeting with Fine Art Auctioneer

Before the clouds lifted last week, I left home with my only precious decorative piece to meet Jean Welz from Strauss & Co. at the Nelson Mandela Art Museum.
 The Esias Bosch glazed stoneware bowl was aquired in the late seventies at an exhibition of SA ceramic artists in PE. Although I love the piece (met the artist in his Witrivier-studio in 1974), it stands out like a sore thumb among my Victorian/Edwardian/etc clutter.

The outcome of my meeting with Mr Welz is confidential. I can only say that I did not return with the Bosch-piece, so my son Eon took a pic of my two mantelpiece birds instead. Here I am wearing my cosy black London charity shop hat and allweather coat, suede gloves and Cartier silk scarf.