Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Collection overview
The MFA Boston's holdings center on Spratling jewelry and hollowware; the Jaguar Brooch is exhibited in Beyond Brilliance, the museum's jewelry highlights gallery.
Individually documented works
26 works
William Spratling
Belt buckle
1940–1946 · Silver, copper · 5.1 x 8.3 x 1.3 cm. (2 x 3 1/4 x 1/2 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Box
1940–1946 · Silver · 5.7 x 8.6 x 7.6 cm. (2 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 3 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bracelet
1940–1950 · Rosewood, silver · Overall: 7.6 x 10.2 x 3.8 cm (3 x 4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Gift of James Tracy and James Black in honor of Penny Morrill
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bracelet
1940–1950 · Silver, rosewood · Overall: 7.6 x 10.2 x 3.8 cm (3 x 4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Gift of James Tracy and James Black in honor of Penny Morrill
Candlestick
1956–1962 · Silver, rosewood · 8.3 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm (3 1/4 x 3 x 3 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Candlestick
1956–1962 · Silver, rosewood · 8.3 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm (3 1/4 x 3 x 3 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Candlestick
1940–1946 · Silver, rosewood · 8.3 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm (3 1/4 x 3 x 3 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Cavier spoon
1956–1962 · Silver, rosewood · 15.2 x 1 x 3.2 cm. (6 x 3/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Dinner bell
1940–1946 · Silver, rosewood · 10.2 x 4.4 cm. (4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Dish
Silver · 5.1 x 15.6 x 11.7 cm. (2 x 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Dolores del Río portrait head
1962–1964 · Silver, rosewood frame · Overall: 14.9 x 13.3 x 3.8 cm (5 7/8 x 5 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin in honor of Penny C. Morrill
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fork, from pair of salad servers
about 1945 · Silver and rosewood · 5.71 x 32.38 cm (2 1/4 x 12 3/4 in.)
Gift of Will and Alexandra Watkins in honor of Mymie Worrell Graham
Frog sugar spoon
about 1935 · Silver · Overall: 1.6 × 9.4 × 2.1 cm (5/8 × 3 11/16 × 13/16 in.)
Gift of Penny Morrill
Frog sugar spoon
about 1935 · Silver · Overall: 1.7 × 9.5 × 2.1 cm (11/16 × 3 3/4 × 13/16 in.)
Gift of Penny Morrill
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jaguar brooch
On view · checked August 20261940–1946 · Silver, amethyst · Overall: 7.6 x 11.7 x 1.3 cm (3 x 4 5/8 x 1/2 in.)
Gift of Jim and Penny Morrill
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ladle
about 1945 · Silver, rosewood · 9.52 x 31.75 cm (3 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)
Gift of Betty Jane and Stephen Andrus in honor of Mymie Worrell Graham
Lidded box
1956–1962 · Silver, rosewood · 3.8 x 10.2 x 7.3 cm. (1 1/2 x 4 x 2 7/8 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Mexico City 1968 Olympics medallion
1967 · Silver gilt · Overall: 4.9 × 5.6 × 0.6 cm (1 15/16 × 2 3/16 × 1/4 in.)
Gift of Penny Morrill
One of pair of salts
mid 1930s · Silver · 5.7 x 8.6 x 8.6 cm. (2 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
One of pair of salts
mid 1930s · Silver · 5.7 x 8.6 x 8.6 cm. (2 1/4 x 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Ring
about 1940–1944 · Silver · Overall: 1 x 2.5 cm (3/8 x 1 in.)
Gift of Margret Craver Withers
Salt
1964–1967 · Silver, rosewood · 3.2x 12.7 x 7.3 cm. (1 1/4 x 5 x 2 7/8 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Serpent brooch
mid 1930s · Silver · 5.7 x 5.7 x 0.6 cm. (2 1/4 x 2 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Small vase
1956–1962 · Silver, rosewood · 7 x 6.4 x 3.5 cm. (2 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)
Gift of Ronald A. Belkin
Works in other media
Paintings, prints, drawings, and archival collections by the makers documented in this directory. These are labeled by medium and are not counted in the silver-object totals.
Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Necklace
1955–1960 · Gold, jadite, coral · Height x length: 7.6 x 45.7 cm (3 x 18 in.)
Museum purchase with funds from the Frank B. Bemis Fund, Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund, Karsh Center at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Stephen H. Borkowski, Leigh Braude-Borowski and Marek Borowski, Jo-Ann Edinburg Pinkowitz and Richard Pinkowitz, Karen and Michael Rotenberg, and gifts in honor of the marriage of Leigh Braude-Borowski and Marek Borowski donated by Lee and Allen Sinai, Shelly and Bruce K. Eckman, Joy and Douglas Kant, Lorraine Bressler, Joyce and Carl P. Sherr, Elliot Davis and John Paolella, Olga Vanegas and Dennis A. Carr, and all of the Art of the Americas curators
Holdings are compiled from the institution's own published collection records, museum labels, and documented first-person study, and verified before listing. Only individually identified silver objects count toward the documented-works total; institution-reported collection totals are listed separately, and related works in other media (paintings, prints, drawings, archives) are labeled by medium and never counted. Images appear only where the institution's license permits or from our own in-gallery photography, credited, and are removed on request. See an error? Submit a correction.