This early Meissen teapot and cover below was among the stand-out sales at the joint selling exhibition A Collectors’ Paradise held at Brian Haughton Gallery in St James’s.
The piece features painted decoration by Christian Frederich Herold, who started his career in Berlin decorating enamel boxes before moving to Meissen, Germany, in 1725, where he worked on the factory’s porcelain. He specialised in chinoiserie and harbour scenes.
Created c.1728-30, this baluster silver shape teapot bears a landscape with merchants on one side and, on the other, a rare Dutch winter scene of ice-skaters on a frozen river with other people engaged in rural winter pursuits. It sold for £35,000.