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A pillow-shaped silver box with a hinged domed lid, its surfaces diamond-scored and set with forty-six gold balls at the intersecting lines, this is one of Spratling's richest small forms. The diamond scoring turns the geometry of the box into a field, and the gold balls at each crossing add a second metal as ornament drawn directly from the structure of the pattern.
The box belongs to the third design period, 1951-1967, when Spratling worked his late hollowware toward refined surface and the interplay of materials. The combination of silver with gold accents marks it as a more luxurious object than his plainer table pieces.
The design is recorded in Phyllis M. Goddard's Spratling Silver: A Field Guide. Gold-accented silver boxes of this kind are seldom available.
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