A Three-Piece Michael and Maureen Banner Silver and Corian Tea Service: Star. Marks: BANNER, HANDWROUGHT, STERLING... (Total: 4 )

Description

A Three-Piece Michael and Maureen Banner Silver and Corian Tea Service: Star
Marks: BANNER, HANDWROUGHT, STERLING, (various)
14-3/8 x 14 x 4-1/4 inches (36.4 x 35.6 x 10.8 cm) (overall)
1180 grams (37.9385 troy ounces) (weighable)

Service comprised of a teapot, covered sugar, and covered creamer, each with triangular bodies, the teapot and creamer with tapering upswept handles and low-set triangular spouts, all raised on a white Corion lozenge-form plinth.


The creative collaboration of Michael and Maureen Banner has produced inspired silver creations of alluringly organic forms that visually seem to take on a life of their own. Working together as husband and wife since 1968, they first developed a successful line of silver and gold jewelry. Then in the early 1980s occasional experiments with hollowware began, and evolved over subsequent decades. The Banner's projects begin conceptually with a meeting of minds. Developing ideas together, Maureen quickly sketches, followed by Michael's Bristol board models and finally their ideas take form in silver. Working together, their process is a constant refining of ideas in tandem. Exploration of the teapot has allowed experimentation with the individual form as well as a larger composition when the sugar bowl and creamer are included. Whether solely in silver, or embellished with Maureen's painterly manipulation of enamel, the Banner's work always delights the eye and entices the imagination.
The Banner's work has been widely celebrated in periodicals, shown in dozens of exhibitions since the 1970s, receiving countless awards, and are included in the permanent collections of numerous museums:
Smithsonian American Art Museum (x3), Washington, D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Currier Museum, Manchester, New Hampshire
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, Indiana
The Kamm Teapot Foundation (x3), Statesville, North Carolina
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Enamel Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pitcher Plant Container), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yale Art Gallery (Shoulders container), New Haven, Connecticut
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (New Moons Box), Little Rock, Arkansas
Crocker Art Museum (Red Iris Box), Sacramento, California



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