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The companion to the conch-handled sugar bowl, this oval creamer carries the same device: a handle formed as the cross-section of a conch shell, lifting the vessel on a domed rim. The shell motif turns the most functional part of the piece into its point of interest.
The conch-section was a recurring form in Spratling's work (Morrill, p. 124), and creamers and sugars of this kind belonged to his hand-wrought table service (Morrill, p. 251).
The creamer is recorded in the Cederwall and Riney Spratling Silver volumes and in Penny Morrill's Maestros de Plata.
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Nautilus Conch Creamer.” Catalog no. MoMS-000368. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/spratling-3010
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