Heavy Large Plate with Rope Trim

A heavy large plate edged with rope trim, its top rim an inch and a half wide, is holloware that announces its weight. The twisted rope border was one of Spratling's most recognizable devices, and on a plate of this scale it frames the broad silver field like a finished edge.

The piece dates from the first design period, 1931 to 1946, the founding years of Spratling's Las Delicias taller in Taxco. Substantial serving silver of this kind sat alongside the jewelry as a core part of the workshop's output.

The rope trim ties a plain functional form firmly to the Spratling vocabulary, and heavy early holloware is valued by collectors who want the workshop's hand at table scale.