An Antiques Roadshow guest didn't have anything to say when her Gandhi sculpture was revealed to be worth a small fortune. During the filming of the popular BBC series at Cheltenham Town Hall, expert Philip Mould met with a guest who brought along a stunning bronze Gandhi sculpture. "It's amusing to reflect that such a tranquil figure as this was created by such a wild Bohemian," he joked.
The guest responded: "Yes, she was known for her wildness and she would never take no for an answer so she'd go up to you at a dinner party and say, 'Your face is so interesting! I must sculpt you!' "And she would introduce herself to everybody famous and just push herself." The artist in question was Polish sculptress Fredda Brilliant, who was the guest's aunt, having married her mother's brother, film producer Herbert Marshall. Mould continued: "So you have this maquette, this bronze for what is arguably the most famous image of Gandhi, the statue in Tavistock Square which she created, she made, and I think was unveiled by Harold Wilson, was it not? "And it's now a place of pilgrimage, I see it from time to time and there's quite often flowers in front of it.
" Pointing to the hole underneath the image, she said: "That was the whole idea - it was done for that. "She was very proud of that. When Indians first came to England to live, the first thing they would do would go to Tavistock Square and put flowers as a thank you for a safe journey or for having arrived finally.
"And on his birthda.