Cream Pitcher with Round Rosewood Handles

A small silver cream pitcher fitted with round rosewood handles, this is the smaller of two sizes the workshop made of the design. The turned wooden handles give the pitcher its grip and its accent of warm color against the silver body.

The pairing of native hardwood with silver hollowware was a hallmark of Spratling's First Design Period table service, the kind of object the taller produced for everyday use. Recorded in the Morrill and Berk survey of twentieth-century Mexican silver, the pitcher is a documented example of that domestic output, and its existence in two sizes is a useful point for collectors distinguishing the variants.