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GERALD BENNEY: A pair of silver and white enamelled beakers London 1973, also stamped GERALD BENNEY LONDON, with master enamellers mark for Alan Alfred Evans image 1
GERALD BENNEY: A pair of silver and white enamelled beakers London 1973, also stamped GERALD BENNEY LONDON, with master enamellers mark for Alan Alfred Evans image 2
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GERALD BENNEY: A pair of silver and white enamelled beakers
London 1973, also stamped GERALD BENNEY LONDON, with master enamellers mark for Alan Alfred Evans

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19 – 20 April 2016, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,000

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Provenance: The Benney Family Private Collection

Gerald Benney decided that his home at Beenham House in Berkshire was the place to develop the use of enamels. The first steps were to travel to Zurich to find an enameller who worked for Burch Korrodi. By chance he came across the Norwegian Berger Bergensen who had worked for the House of Bolin as well as Burch. Bergensen was persued to come to Beenham House and taught the Benney work force all he knew about enamelling. With Alan Evans and Robert Winter becoming notable master enamellers for Benney.
It took several years to master the craft. He refined and mastered this art enamelling larger surface areas than Faberge.

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