BENNEY: A unique silver and enamelled beaker, an early prototype for the Fabergé Silver Collection mark for Simon Benney and additional mark for the Fabergé collection, London 2010 image 1

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Lot 77

BENNEY: A unique silver and enamelled beaker, an early prototype for the Fabergé Silver Collection
mark for Simon Benney and additional mark for the Fabergé collection, London 2010

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21 November 2018, 13:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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BENNEY: A unique silver and enamelled beaker, an early prototype for the Fabergé Silver Collection

mark for Simon Benney and additional mark for the Fabergé collection, London 2010
The slightly curved sides with a narrow polished rim and bands, with eighteen panels, with translucent enamelling in tones of blue, green, purple, grey and red over soft textured grounds including a single vacant panel, height 9cm, diameter at top 7cm, weight total 6.45oz.

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Simon Benney in collaboration with Fabergé launched the successful Constructivist collection of tumblers inspired by Russian Constructivist art, using a complex palette of enamels. The current lot was an early prototype for this collection and experimented with leaving a panel vacant.

Fabergé had been fragmented for almost 90 years when in 2007 this was reversed with the reunification of the Fabergé name with the Fabergé Family. In 2009 Fabergé was relaunched, and in 2012 launched its first silver collection since the Russian Revolution.

Simon Benney was trained by his father Gerald Benney. By adding texture to his pieces he creates an illusion of depth, and adds colour by means of enamelling to highlight this detail. Alan Evans was one of the original master enamellers with Simon's father Gerald and remains with Simon today.
Benney was the first craftsman to hold four Royal Warrants simultaneously, with Royal Warrants from HM The Queen, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales.

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