Azur Malachite and Silver Arrow Necklace with Elongated

Silver and azur malachite arrows hang from an elongated link chain in this necklace, which Spratling called a "V pendant," the pointed forms gathering at the front against the blue-green mineral. The same design was also made with obsidian in place of the azur malachite, marking it as a model worked in more than one stone.

The necklace dates to the Third Design Period of 1951 to 1967 and carries forward the arrow motif and the colored-stone vocabulary Spratling had developed in earlier years. The elongated chain gives the pendant its drop and movement.

Recorded in Morrill's Maestros de Plata study and in Goddard's field guide, the necklace is a documented example of the workshop's late arrow jewelry, the obsidian variant a useful point for collectors tracing the design.