Bunny Campione | |
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Born | Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher August 1946 (age 77) England |
Occupation(s) | Antiques expert, television personality |
Employer(s) |
Sotheby's (23 years tenure, Furniture Department, Collectors Department 1973–1996) Christies London Office (senior consultant 1997–2002) |
Known for | Appearances on Antiques Roadshow (1985–present) |
Family | Stewart Granger (uncle) |
Bunny Campione (born Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher; c. August 1946) [1] is an English antiques expert known for her many appearances on the television programme Antiques Roadshow since 1985 and has published her own works on antiques. [2][ failed verification]
Campione is the daughter of Squadron leader Francis Colborne Fisher, of Mudeford, Hampshire, [3] and Iris (née Stewart), sister of British actor Stewart Granger. Campione became known as "Bunny" as a young child, after she was given a coat that had a hood with rabbit ears on it. She also later collected soft toy rabbits. She has been known to bizarrely claim that her given name is “Anastasia”.[ citation needed] She studied at university in France and worked at the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford for a year. [4] She then worked at Sotheby's for 23 years until 1996, gaining a wide knowledge of antiques, firstly in the furniture department and then the collectors' department. [5] She was a senior consultant at Christie's in London until 2002.
Campione lives at Daws Hall, a private nature reserve, in Lamarsh, Essex. Her husband Iain Grahame, Idi Amin’s old commander and friend, died on 4 September 2023. [6] She runs her own company, Campione Fine Art, buying and selling antiques on behalf of clients. She has a particular interest in, and knowledge of, automata, bird-cages, corkscrews, dolls, dolls' houses, miniature and early furniture, and soft toys. [7]
Bunny Campione | |
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Born | Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher August 1946 (age 77) England |
Occupation(s) | Antiques expert, television personality |
Employer(s) |
Sotheby's (23 years tenure, Furniture Department, Collectors Department 1973–1996) Christies London Office (senior consultant 1997–2002) |
Known for | Appearances on Antiques Roadshow (1985–present) |
Family | Stewart Granger (uncle) |
Bunny Campione (born Carolyn Elizabeth Fisher; c. August 1946) [1] is an English antiques expert known for her many appearances on the television programme Antiques Roadshow since 1985 and has published her own works on antiques. [2][ failed verification]
Campione is the daughter of Squadron leader Francis Colborne Fisher, of Mudeford, Hampshire, [3] and Iris (née Stewart), sister of British actor Stewart Granger. Campione became known as "Bunny" as a young child, after she was given a coat that had a hood with rabbit ears on it. She also later collected soft toy rabbits. She has been known to bizarrely claim that her given name is “Anastasia”.[ citation needed] She studied at university in France and worked at the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford for a year. [4] She then worked at Sotheby's for 23 years until 1996, gaining a wide knowledge of antiques, firstly in the furniture department and then the collectors' department. [5] She was a senior consultant at Christie's in London until 2002.
Campione lives at Daws Hall, a private nature reserve, in Lamarsh, Essex. Her husband Iain Grahame, Idi Amin’s old commander and friend, died on 4 September 2023. [6] She runs her own company, Campione Fine Art, buying and selling antiques on behalf of clients. She has a particular interest in, and knowledge of, automata, bird-cages, corkscrews, dolls, dolls' houses, miniature and early furniture, and soft toys. [7]