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An owl with amethyst eyes, here given as a bracelet, carries one of the workshop's figural animal motifs onto the wrist, the purple cabochons set for the eyes against the silver. The creature is worked as a compact, sculptural form, the kind of small carved beast that recurred across Spratling's First Design Period jewelry.
The owl belongs to the menagerie of figural subjects the Taxco workshop drew from the natural world and Mexico's visual past. With no further period documentation recorded for this piece, it stands as a characteristic example of the workshop's figural First Period jewelry, the amethyst eyes its chief accent.
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