Half Ball Arrow Brooch

Three silver half-balls mounted on an arrow, with smaller balls forming a horizontal line across the middle, give this brooch its composition of rounded silver units on a directional form. The half-ball and the arrow are both familiar elements in Spratling's first-period vocabulary, combined here into a single geometric figure.

The arrow supplies direction while the rows of silver balls supply rhythm and texture, the larger half-balls answered by the smaller line across the center. It is the kind of abstract, balanced design Spratling built from simple repeating silver forms rather than figural imagery.

As a first-period silver brooch composed from half-balls and an arrow, it belongs to the studio's geometric jewelry, where clean form and repeated units made the design.