Lively bidding for dodo

UK: IT may have been a touch risky for Phillips (15/10 per cent buyer’s premium) to illustrate a dodo on the front cover of a catalogue for the sale of 19th and 20th century design in Edinburgh on May 21, but thankfully for the auctioneers it proved to be anything but a dead duck when it came to the bidding.

The extinct avian was the subject of the Persian-style lustre tile, left, measuring 6in (15cm) squar…

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