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A four-piece place setting with an amethyst inset in each piece shows Spratling extending his jewelry sensibility across an entire run of flatware: the same purple stone repeats from piece to piece, so the set reads as a coordinated suite rather than as individual utensils. Setting a faceted stone into the handle of working silverware is an unusual gesture, jewelry's logic applied to the table.
The pattern belongs to Spratling's First Design Period. It is recorded in Morrill's William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance: Maestros de Plata. A complete setting with its amethysts intact and early marks is what ties the flatware to the documented design.
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