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Gilded cuff links shaped as a frog seated on a lily pad belong to a small family of frog designs Spratling worked during the Third Design Period, the same frog appearing in a necklace and a box. Gilding warms the silver and suits the naturalistic subject.
Recurring animal forms running across different object types, here the frog across cuff links, necklace and box, reflect how Spratling developed a motif into a coherent suite of pieces. The naturalistic whimsy is characteristic of his design instinct (Morrill, p. 66).
The cuff links are recorded in Phyllis Goddard's Spratling Silver field guide.
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Gilded Frog Cuff Links.” Catalog no. MoMS-000642. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/spratling-3069
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William Spratling
Cufflinks of Ebony and Gilded Silver
Gilded Silver
