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An open sugar bowl and creamer in the Volteo pattern, fitted with rosewood handles, pair Spratling's hollowware with the wood-against-silver contrast he favored in his table service. The dark rosewood set against bright metal is the combination Morrill links to Jean Puiforcat's influence on Spratling (Morrill, p. 224).
As a named pattern, Volteo identifies a coordinated line of table silver rather than a one-off, the kind of matched service the workshop produced for the home.
Open sugar-and-creamer sets in this pattern survive in modest numbers.
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Volteo Sugar and Creamer.” Catalog no. MoMS-000770. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/spratling-2653
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William Spratling
Octagonal Silver and Ebony Ashtray
Third Design Period: 1951 - 1967
Ebony