The Corkscrew

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Record 27/58
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Artist Higgs, Rob
Retail price Pinfold Plinth: (non lifting) £15,000 = $23,000 (approx)
Kelmscott: (Lifting) £55,000 = $84,000 (approx)
Hoffman: (Lifting) £70,000 = $107,000 (approx)
Material Bronze, various base cabinets
Notes Video projection of "The Corkscrew”, an ingenious mechanical sculpture comprising almost 300 found objects which have been cast in bronze and assembled to create a priceless object trouves. The Corkscrew is not only an amazing sculpture, which dramatically emerges from its fabulous cabinet, but is quite simply a work of pure, mechanical genius which removes the cork from a bottle of wine and then pours the wine under its own power.


Object ID 2009.RHi.1
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Last modified on: May 20, 2009