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The smaller of the jaguar coffee pots shows how Spratling scaled a signature design across his service: the same Pre-Columbian cat, the same silver-and-ebony construction, sized down for a complete set. The jaguar drives the form at any size, the animal worked into the body of the pot rather than applied as decoration.
The motif reflects Spratling's foundational move of drawing on Mexico's Pre-Conquest art for a modern silver vocabulary (Morrill, p. 39), and his coffee and tea services were part of the documented output surveyed at the 1965 McNay exhibition (Morrill, p. 77).
The piece is recorded in the Cederwall and Riney Spratling Silver volumes, La Platería Mexicana, and Penny Morrill's Maestros de Plata.
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