Volteo Sugar Bowl

A demitasse sugar bowl in the Volteo pattern, its rosewood handles secured by a silver band: this small serving piece shows Spratling's later hollowware vocabulary at intimate scale. The Volteo pattern names the design, and the banded-rosewood handle is its signature fitting.

The silver band securing the wood is a precise, modern detail, the kind of resolved joinery that distinguished Spratling's serving pieces from plainer hollowware. Paired with a matching creamer, the bowl was sold as part of a coordinated service.

The piece is documented in Cederwall and Riney's Spratling Silver and in Goddard's field guide, with the creamer-and-sugar pair catalogued at $18.00 in 1958-59, $20.00 in 1961, and $24.00 by 1967. Demitasse serving pieces from the Volteo line come to market only occasionally.