Letting 'the nest egg hatch'
May 20 2011
Picture: The Parish of St Michael and All Angels
A church in Withyham, East Sussex has been given permission to sell four paintings by Niccolo Di Pietro Gerini. They are expected to fetch up to £1.5m when sold at Sotheby's in the summer.
The church has been unable to pay for the insurance since 1995, and the pictures have been at Leeds Castle ever since. Probably, selling them is the right decision: as the Chancellor of Chichester Diocese put it, 'The nest egg must be allowed to hatch.'
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