A MEXICAN FOUR-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
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A MEXICAN FOUR-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**

MARK OF WILLIAM SPRATLING, TAXCO, 1940-46

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A MEXICAN FOUR-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE**
MARK OF WILLIAM SPRATLING, TAXCO, 1940-46
Ovalado pattern; comprising a coffee pot, teapot, covered cream jug and sugar bowl; each oval with elongated tapering neck, with wood scroll handles and ball finials, each engraved DeO D*I, marked on bases
The coffee pot 8½ in. (21.7 cm.) high; 61 oz. (1,904 gr.) gross weight (4)

Specialist note

This pattern, which appeared in the Montgomery Ward catalogue of 1943, is illustrated in Penny C. Morrill, William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance, p. 236.