David Winter Bill & Nancy's House Oliver Twist Box CoA - eBay (item 120124474361 end time Jul-11-08 10:31:12 PDT)

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BILL & NANCY'S HOUSE D1054 THE OLIVER TWIST CHRISTMAS COLLECTION HAND MADE & HAND PAINTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM DAVID WINTER 1999 LICENSEE ENESCO CORPORATION ORIGINAL BOX & CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

This wonderful Cottage is from David Winter's Oliver Twist Christmas Collection 1999. The House of Bill Sikes and Nancy, as David has envisaged it, may once have been the home to decent, respectable people, but those days are long gone. Standing bleak, cold and uncared-for in the snows of winter, it epitomises the lives of those who inhabit it. The brutal and ruthless Sikes has never exhibited a vestige of humanity, except perhaps to his dog. "He treats you like a dog! worse than a dog, for he humours him sometimes," observes the wily Fagin to the unhappy Nancy, who has been so dehumanised by Sikes that her conscience is all but extinguished. When she does make an attempt to save Oliver, she is battered to death by her loathsome partner. A suggestion of the horrors that this house has witnessed is evocatively captured in David's sculpture. A pristine covering of snow on its roof cannot conceal its essentially sinister character. or is that simply because we know what lies in the room upstairs?

The beautiful David Winter Collectible is from the private Collection of a member of the US Airforce, who decided to sell her beautiful David Winter Collection wishing to generate enough funds to help fulfill a life-long dream. She was the first and only owner of this piece, which has only been displayed behind glass and is as such in wonderful Condition - a truly precious addition to every David Winter Collection. More wonderful David Winter Cottages are available in my eBay Store

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