Ebony Salad Servers

Carved ebony handles, each looped and finished on the reverse, anchor this oversized salad fork and spoon, with inset silver circles and rectangles supplying the design interest. The pairing of dark wood with bright silver insets is the material contrast Spratling cultivated in his table pieces, the warmth of wood against reflective metal that Morrill connects to Jean Puiforcat (Morrill, p. 224).

The servers carry an exhibition history: the design was included in "The World of William Spratling," the 1965 touring U.S. museum show whose published inventory listed salad servers among the silver on view (Morrill, p. 77).

The design is recorded in both Morrill's Maestros de Plata and Phyllis M. Goddard's Spratling Silver: A Field Guide. Carved-handle servers with documented exhibition standing are seldom available.