William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance

Important figures of the North American literary and art establishment, among them John dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Georgia O'Keeffe, purchased his designs and sang his praises. Out of Spratling's workshop emerged many of Mexico's finest silver designers, including Hector Aguilar, Antonio Castillo, and his brothers Jorge and Justo, Salvador Teran, and Antonio Pineda. Their sticking jewellery and hollow-ware in silver - often set with precious stones and pre-Columbian artefacts - are prized collectibles