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A cabochon amethyst crowns the handle of this large silver ladle, set above three rings on a silver feather design, with the pouring lip placed on the left. Spratling routinely carried his jewelry vocabulary into serving pieces, and here a feather motif and a cabochon stone, the stuff of his pins and rings, finish a piece of functional flatware.
The ladle belongs to the first design period, 1931-1946, when the workshop's hollowware and serving pieces shared the same handwrought language as its jewelry.
It is recorded in Phyllis M. Goddard's Spratling Silver: A Field Guide. Large serving pieces with applied stone ornament of this kind come to market only occasionally.
Ladle (Cucharón), circa 1931-1946
Accession M.2014.158. Official museum record Photo: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Verified against each institution's own collection records. All museum collections
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Large Silver Ladle.” Catalog no. MoMS-000302. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/spratling-2643
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William Spratling
Three Scallop Ladle
First Design Period: 1931 - 1946
Silver
