A terrific set. Absoiutely masterful work. As pleasurable to the touch as it is to the eye. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we ...
Very handsome piece, with a wonderful feel of movement, aliveness, on the wrist. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require wire transfers. Please ...
This is it: the real deal. By the great American designer and begetter of the modern Mexican craft of silversmithing, bearing ALL his hallmarks, those in the silver itself, and that of his and his atelier's high artistry. And here is a great link to a page concerned with Spratling hallmarks: http://www.spratlingsilver.com/hallmarks.htm Call for pricing. We ship using UPS ...
It is not surprising that other silversmiths often copied Hector Aguilar's style, and when they did it with such skill, as in this charmer, the results are very pleasing. A poison ring or pillbox ring is a type of ring with a container under the bezel or inside the bezel itself that could be used to ...
This beautiful pair of silver candelabra (c. 1940) were made by Juventino López Reyes. Having gotten his start at Maciel, he opened his own workshop La Platería Del Recreo in 1935. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost ...
Hector Aguilar started out his incredible career as a designer, silversmith and shop owner by first apprenticing with William Spratling at Las Delicias in 1937. Taxco was a traditional site of silver mines, but had no native silverworking industry. Spratling, having moved there, began designing works in silver based primarily on pre-Columbian and traditional motifs, and hired local goldsmiths ...
Amazing detail in this Los Castillo bracelet: Two interlocking ferns joined together to create small wreaths, which are joined by five more wreaths making this bracelet a one of a kind. The Los Castillo design studio has been forging some of the most innovative and lovely jewelry creations in all of Mexico since the mid 1930’s. ...
Los Castillo combined the talents of four brothers of the Castillo family along with Margot van Voorhies Carr, professionally known as Margot de Taxco, who was married to Antonio Castillo. Brothers Antonio, Jorge, Miguel, and Justo began their silver crafting studies in William Spratling’s Taller de las Delicias. In 1939 they left to open their own silver shop and ...
Hector Aguilar started out his incredible career as a designer, silversmith and shop owner by first apprenticing with William Spratling at Las Delicias in 1937. Taxco was a traditional site of silver mines, but had no native silverworking industry. Spratling, having moved there, began designing works in silver based primarily on pre-Columbian and traditional motifs, and hired local goldsmiths ...
Hector Aguilar started out his incredible career as a designer, silversmith and shop owner by first apprenticing with William Spratling at Las Delicias in 1937. Taxco was a traditional site of silver mines, but had no native silverworking industry. Spratling, having moved there, began designing works in silver based primarily on pre-Columbian and traditional motifs, and hired local goldsmiths ...
Never before seen, a Spratling silver ashtray. Ashtray is missing one ball foot, but we are going to repair it. It's simply too beautiful not to post it in its present state. William Spratling was born in 1900 in Sonyea, New York. His father was well respected and widely known for his study and writings concerning ...
The Los Castillo design studio has been forging some of the most innovative and lovely jewelry creations in all of Mexico since the mid 1930’s. In addition to their jewelry, they are known for their hand-hammered silver plated copper vessels inlaid with fine Mexican turquoise, lapis and malachite. Located in “the silver city,” Taxco, Mexico, Los ...
A beautiful signed sterling silver Tasco Flower brooch. The brooch has marks in 3 places on the back. Sterling, Hecheon Mexico Maricela in Script, and 925. The brooch is 2 inches wide and 2 1/2 inches long. The Flower looks like a hibiscus, and it is very pretty. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority ...
A great 3" x 3" mixed metal Aztec cuff. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require wire transfers. Please feel free to enquire ...
A silver parrot pitcher marked Los Castillo showing some wear, but still a very nice find. Pitcher measures 7" tall x 4" diameter. Price on request. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship ...
A Los Castillo silver and lapis lazuli parrot pitcher. Pitcher measures 5" tall x 4" diameter. Price on request. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require ...
This hinged globe-shaped silver box, in a design of repoussé silver contrived to look like the leaves and stems of the painted metal and pearl flowerets that stud its surface, resembles nothing so much as a pomander. In its fitted red velvet box it summons up also the memories of the old traditional paper ribbon ...
Unsigned work of great originality and flair. The wonderful variety of arrowhead designs strung together give the necklace a vivacity and wit that in no way detract from its fundamental elegance. $250. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and ...
The Forties style is embodied in this bracelet and brooch set, simple and geometric and at the same time absolutely exuberant. $450. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those ...
A knockout set of silver jewelry from the 40s, Price on request.
Deep for a locket, shallow for a snuff box, whatever the purpose of this attractive brooch may be remains an agreeable mystery, a puzzle to be solved by its next owner. In the style of Hector Aguilar, it deploys some of his characteristic motifs. price on request
Showing a strong deco influence, this silver-chased Mexican tray is a fine example of the early flowering of Mexican crafts pioneered by the American designer William Spratling during a time of intellectual ferment and exciting internationalism in Mexico. $175
The merging of two currents is the motif of this elegant design. The craft of Mexican silver jewelry was revived in the 1920s and 1930s through the efforts of two Americans fascinated by the arts of Mexico. Fred Davis in Mexico City worked with local silversmiths to produce designs that reflected Mexico's ancient Indian heritage. William ...
Extremely handsome silver setting of an obsidian stone with elegant white striations. Brooch measures 4 x 3 3/4. Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. It possesses the property of presenting a different appearance according to the manner in which it is cut: when cut in one direction it is jet ...
This modern design showcases the superb craftsmanship of the Taxco silversmiths. Brooch measures 3 x 2 1/4. The craft of Mexican silver jewelry was revived in the 1920s and 1930s through the efforts of two Americans fascinated by the arts of Mexico. Fred Davis in Mexico City worked with local silversmiths to produce designs that reflected ...