Antique Rare TAXCO Sterling Silver Bowl Spratling 1930s
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Rare Taxco Sterling Silver Bowl by William Spratling Fully Marked - 1930s First Design Period 1931 - 1946 Here is a nice antique Taxco bowl with 3 looped handles and six pairs of vertical incised lines. It has an early mark on the bottom of silversmith and artist William Spratling and one of his earliest bowl designs. There is some slight tarnish as well as a small soft bump and small ding (both on the same side, see pics), these do not take away from the beauty of the piece. This is a museum quality, collectible piece. See more description of William Spratling below. This bowl is also on SpratlingSilver site. Measures approximately 1 7/8" x 6" Buyer pays shipping. "William Spratling (Sept. 22, 1900 - August 7, 1967) was an American-born silversmith and artist, best known for his influence on 20th Century Mexican silver design. Spratling was born in 1900 in Livingston County, New York, after the deaths of Spratling's mother and sister, he moved to his father's boyhood home outside of Auburn, Alabama. Spratling graduated from Auburn University, where he majored in architecture. Upon graduation, he took a position as an instructor in the architecture department at Auburn, and in 1921 he was offered a similiar position at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. While teaching at Tulane, Spratling shared a house with writer
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