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Mid Century William Spratling Sterling Creamer and Sugar. Very well made of<br>course, thick and heavy for their size. Sugar 4.75" handle to handle x 4" tall<br>with lid 361.3 grams total weight. Tiny dent on knob of lid, no other issues. I<br>can polish these before shipping, just ask please after purchase.<br><br>Spratling, an architect and artist who taught at Tulane University in New<br>Orleans, came to Mexico in the late 1920s and settled in the city of Taxco.<br>Having developed an interest in Mesoamerican archaeology and culture from his<br>colleagues at Tulane, he traveled to Mexico for several summers lecturing and<br>exploring. He sought out remote villages in the state of Guerrero, 110 miles<br>from Mexico City, where in some places Nahuatl, the Aztec language, was spoken.<br>Spratling collected artifacts and contemporary indigenous crafts.
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