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A bracelet of silver and bronze elongated "beads" set to seem as if they float like teardrops shows Spratling shaping a band around a single repeated form, the tapered bead, and exploiting the color difference between silver and bronze to make the rhythm read. Mixing silver with a base metal for color was part of his First Period material experimentation, and the elongated bead turns that contrast into a row of suspended drops.
The bracelet is recorded in Goddard's Spratling Silver: A Field Guide. As a First Design Period piece, it is identified by its early hallmark and by the handwork of the beads.
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