Dutch silver melon-shaped teapot

Fabulous silver was made in Zutphen. Local silversmiths followed stylistic developments from the west of the Netherlands, especially from The Hague. Zutphen is surrounded by the beautiful countryside, where many aristocratic families owned property and houses, and who commissioned silver in Zutphen according to models from The Hague. An example of this fashion is the melon-shaped teapot, although teapots from The Hague tend to be somewhat smaller compared to this more robust piece.

Salomon Lamberts was the primus inter pares of Zutphen silversmiths. Born in Amsterdam, he moved to Zutphen in 1734, and in the same year he married the daughter of Berend Coolhaas, who was originally from Deventer.

Several nearly identical melon-shaped teapots by Lamberts are known, sometimes combined with matching milk jugs, including a set dated in 1767.