Ostrich egg
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Ostrich egg
Measurements
150 mm (Height)
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608944
Summary
Large blown ostrich egg. 19th century.
Provenance
Believed to be Sophia Dubochet collection, wife of the 2nd Lord Berwick whom she married in 1812, (d.1875). By descent bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.