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A square belt buckle of smooth, undecorated silver, this the largest of three sizes the design was made in, shows Spratling trusting plain form entirely: no stone, no incising, no applied ornament, only proportion and the surface of the metal. Heavy buckles like this were among the very first objects his workshop produced.
From the start, Spratling's heavy silver belt buckles defined his early output, alongside simple half-dome earrings (Morrill, p. 39). Making a single design in three sizes reflects the catalogued, repeatable production his workshop ran. The piece dates to the First Design Period (1931-1946).
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