Description
1950's William Spratling Sterling silver modernist wine goblets. Selling the<br>pair shown, estate fresh, never professionally polished. 3.25" tall x 3" wide at<br>the rims with no damage or significant wear. This pattern was produced in a<br>variety of shapes, every piece made by hand with slight variations. This form is<br>a very uncommon one in this pattern.<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.
