WS020 Vintage William Spratling sterling silver ‘Caviar’ bracelet with amethyst quartz clasp accents, circa-1940s
Origin: Taxco, Mexico
Dimensions: 7.25” x .5”; 33.3 gm
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: Consignment
Price: SOLD

Spratling's Caviar bracelet offers an opulent feast for the senses. Its smooth silken links slip heavy through the fingers and embrace the wrist in luxury. The interlocking links design shows slips of bare skin transformed and surrounded in aged silver's mellow glow. A massive amethyst-punctuated clasp blends its implacable pre-Columbian form with an aesthetic out of ancient Byzantium, riveting the eye. This rare and highly recognized piece from Spratling's First design period carries the primary ‘WS print circle’ hallmark (1940-1946) and the tertiary ‘Spratling Silver’ in an oval cartouche (1940-1944). Featured in “Mexican Silver” by Morrill and Berk (Plate 111-35, page 46) as a long necklace or belt, sumptuous Caviar is one of Spratling's quintessential and most coveted designs, a crown jewel for serious collectors.