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A tall, heavy silver candlestick rising from a wood base, its surface punctuated by applied silver circles, this piece makes a repeated disc the entire decorative argument, the dots set against the column in the manner Morrill identifies as one of Spratling's signature motifs (Morrill, p. 73). It dates to the first design period, 1931 to 1946.
The applied silver circles, the same playful, sophisticated dots Spratling used on wood and metal alike (Morrill, p. 73), give the heavy form rhythm and lift, while the wood base grounds it in his characteristic pairing of warm material with reflective metal (Morrill, p. 224).
Widely documented, the candlestick is recorded in both editions of Cederwall and Riney's Spratling Silver, in Penny Morrill's William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance, and in Phyllis Goddard's field guide. Candlesticks were among the candleholders shown in the 1965 "World of William Spratling" exhibition (Morrill, p. 77).
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