How to create an Easter display with 'out of the ordinary' objects

22 March 2023 Use online auctions to find items to decorate your home this Easter.

Easter surprise: A Chiswick Auctions' silver sale dressed for Easter. View more from Chiswick Auctions here.

Here is a selection of Easter related collectables available at auction this month.

Surprise egg

Silversmith and designer Stuart Devlin (1931-2018) made a number of ‘surprise’ eggs for Easter. Fellow silversmith Nicholas Plummer continued the tradition and this example, marked for London 2004, reveals a posy of snowdrops inside.

Nicholas Plummer snowdrop surprise egg, estimated at £100-150, at Bishop & Miller on March 29.

Sheep ornaments

This collection of seven Beswick figures, comprising three ewes, four lambs and a sheepdog, is estimated at £40-60 at David Duggleby Auctioneers on March 31.

Religious porcelain egg

This 19^th century Russian porcelain egg on a gilt ground decorated with an oval panel depicting Christ and the Virgin Mary. It is estimated at £200-300 at Hutchinson Scott on March 28-31.

Tunbridgeware egg

This Victorian Tunbridgeware wooden egg and separate egg cup (accompanied by chamberstick, match box and onyx egg) is estimated at £150-200 Woolley & Wallis on April 4-5.

Staffordshire chicken

This Staffordshire pottery chicken and basket for storing eggs is estimated at £40-60 at Huntly Auctions in Aberdeenshire on April 9.

Rabbit sculpture

A rabbit and bird sculpture on offer at William George’s timed sale which ends on March 29. It has a starting bid of £12.

For more on how to bid at auction view thesaleroom.com's auction guide.