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A single obsidian disc flanked by smaller silver discs, hung from a fine elongated-link chain, distills Spratling's design to a play of circles in two materials. The black volcanic glass at the center is purely Mexican, the silver discs his recurring articulating device.
Obsidian was a native material Spratling favored, and the elongated-link chain is a construction he used across his necklaces. The disc-against-disc composition reflects the simpler, surface-and-line approach his jewelry took on at maturity (Morrill, p. 73).
The necklace is recorded in Penny Morrill's Maestros de Plata and Phyllis Goddard's Spratling Silver field guide.
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