Found by a dog walker in a roadside skip, this remarkably intact Victorian majolica teapot, right, found the ideal bidder at Brighton General Auctions (15% buyer’s premium) on August 11.
Auctioneer Andrew Potter noted the marks for Brownfield but could find nothing similar from the Cobridge, Staffordshire, works.
Eight years ago, a couple of Brownfield teapots sold well: one formed as a Chinese man wrapped round the pot took a 20-times estimate £1950 at Fieldings, Stourbridge, and one of Brownfield’s prize fish teapots made £2250 at Christie’s South Kensington.