Unusual Frog Earrings with Rose Quartz

These frog earrings, from William Spratling's first design period (1931–1946), date to the formative years of the Taxco silver revival that Spratling launched as the American who reestablished the town as a working silver center. They pair sterling with rose quartz, and they appear to have been produced for only a short time before the design shifted.

The frog is rendered in silver with a large rose quartz cabochon. Related frog earrings were made afterward in all silver, without the large amethyst or rose quartz cabochon seen here, which marks this version as a brief moment in the design's evolution.

The earrings are recorded in Phyllis M. Goddard's "Spratling Silver: A Field Guide — Recognizing a William Spratling Treasure." Their short production window makes them an uncommon survival from the workshop's earliest years.