'Silver Egg' was originally commissioned for an exhibition of sterling silver sculpture in which David Nash was asked to create a work of no more than 15cm in any dimension. This beautiful result shows the versatility of silver as a material, replicated the charred texture of the original perfectly but with an innate precious quality given but the nature of the metal. Nash said of his use of the egg as a theme for his work:

"The egg form is deeply ‘known’. From birds’ eggs, to tree buds, the shape signifies an encapsulation of life to come, a concentration, a distillation of all that is complex in nature. Simple, primal, potent, precious. Make an egg of clay then push the form into a head, a seal, a fish, a bear - every form. The egg sits in space between interior and exterior. Inside time is paused, outside time rushes on. The Surface is all one, curving, rounded, elliptical. The relationship of two different radii at either end and the stretch between the ends all vary so that every egg is unique. Its shape and posture – vertical, angled or lying – the material and size all speak to our subliminal ‘knowing’ of the egg." David Nash, quoted in N. Lynton, David Nash, London, 2007, p. 129.