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Built from six links carrying an Aztec symbol that resembles a lyre, this Silson bracelet repeats in plate a motif also used for a Spratling silver pin. The shared symbol ties the bracelet directly to Spratling's Pre-Columbian design vocabulary, the same lyre-like form appearing across both the plated bracelet and the solid-silver pin.
The bracelet was made during the early 1940s by Silson, the United States costume-jewelry maker that produced plated interpretations of Spratling motifs in the war years. Its six linked elements carry the Aztec-derived symbol around the wrist, an example of how a single Pre-Columbian motif moved across forms and materials.
That the same lyre symbol appears on both a Silson bracelet and a Spratling silver pin documents how his Aztec-derived designs circulated between the handwrought originals and their plated counterparts. The relationship between the two is what gives a Silson link bracelet its interest for collectors tracing the reach of the Taxco revival's motifs.
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