Spratling Vintage Sterling and Amythest Quartz Ring

Made c. 1940, a handsome chunky cast sterling silver ring was set with a singular fossilized stone. The broad shoulders are hand engraved with stylized arrows. This strong and intere...

Here piggy, piggy is not what you say to a wild boar unless it is an silver stickpin. It is very much like a wild boar appears in person.I have seen them them at close range. The sti...

The biomorphic form of this graceful becomes a vehicle for the imagination. The rock crystal and sterling silver combination is clean, pure and airy. There is a feeling of movement h...

Lovers of Scottish Jewelry unite and cheer this sterling silver large dirk set with moss agate bloodstone and carnelian, topped by a beautiful prism s...

A Sterling Silver Pin done to fool the eye is an engraved classical head attached with a tack to tree bark. In fact the term Trompe L'oile literally means to fool the eye. The Trompe...

A Scottish Horseshoe brooch in sterling with two sculpted three dimensional deer on top of a deer leg riding crop, is an example of the hunting jewelry...

Early William Spratling brooch set with a pale cabochon amythest. A symbolic double headed animal is wrapped arround the stone. Silver balls decorate the edge of this heavy gauge ste...

Attractive gilt silver brooch of wired hexagonal amythest pastes by Vogue N.Y. circa 1940s. Dimensional and unusual. USA 1940's. Excellent condition. 2.5"

A William Spratling Sterling silver Brooch .1933-1939 and 1940-1946, First Design Period; Taxco, Mexico Each stamped for William Spratling; Others ...

A William Spratling Sterling silver Brooch .1933-1939 and 1940-1946, First Design Period; Taxco, Mexico stamped for William Spratling; Others variously stamped: Taxco / 980 / Made in Mexico / Silver / Mexico Provenance: The Collection of Cindy Tietze-Hodosh and Stuart Hodosh William Spratling, (born Sept. 22, 1900, Sonyea, N.Y., U.S.A”died Aug. 8, 1967, near Taxco, Mex.), American designer and architect, who spent more than 30 years in Mexico developing and promoting the silvercraft that made the city of Taxco famous.A graduate of the New York Fine Arts Institute and Auburn University, in Alabama (where he studied architecture), Spratling taught art and architecture at Tulane University, New Orleans, La., for eight years before going to Mexico in 1927. For two years he taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City (1927â€â€œ29) and then settled in Taxco, an old silver town (founded in 1528) that had long been in decay. He befriended silver artisans from all over Mexico and began the design of silver jewelry, artwork, tableware, and tea sets, opening his first taller, or workshop, on the Calle Las Delicias in 1933. After World War II his workshop went bankrupt, but he continued his work from a nearby ranch. His example inspired the founding of hundreds of competing workshops.Over the years Spratling also collected archaeological pieces...

Victorian oval domed, repousse and engraved aluminum and amythest crystal brooch. Gilt metal oval wire work surrounds the focal faceted amythest crystal and the aluminum body of the brooch. 19th Century aluminum jewelry...

Charming Panetta Amythest and Turquoise Bug brooch from the 1980's rendered in gilt metal and glass. 2.75" x 1.75"