The very best piece of English luxury silver to come to the market in 50 Years, a monumental wine cooler, weighing 168 pounds and measuring well over a meter across, sold this past july the 6th at Sotheby’s for £2 505 250, establishing a new world record price for English silver. The spectacular luxury cistern, as "Large as a Small Bathing-Tub", sold to a private Asian buyer.

Mario Tavella, Sotheby’s Deputy Chairman Europe and the specialist in charge of the sale said: "Today’s very successful results represent a fantastic achievement in the field of decorative arts. These extraordinarily rare luxury treasures with highly desirable aristocratic provenance sparked competition from private collectors and institutional buyers alike as well as the trade and there was bidding and buying from Europe, the United States, Russia, Asia and the Middle East." Yet an anonymous Asian buyer was the highest bidder for one of the most extraordinary luxury silver wine cooler of aristocratic heirloom.

So it comes as no surprise that this coming August 2010 Michelle Chan will join Sotheby's in Hong Kong as a wine specialist and liaison for consignors. Ms. Chan will take on the role of client buyers along with business development. MS. Chan has more than 10 years' experience in media, investor relations and corporate communications. Part of the responsibilities of Ms. Chan at Sotheby's will be inspecting and cataloguing wines that will go on sale in Hong Kong, working close by the side of Robert Sleigh. Robert Sleigh has over 20 years of experience, starting his career at Sotheby's in 1996; he has been Head of the

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