Mexican Silver: 20th Century Handwrought Jewelry & Metalwork
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 272pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth, with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Marbled endpapers. Color frontispiece. This remarkable work is the powerful story of the silver renaissance in Mexico from the 1920s to the present. Over 400 color photos showcase jewelry, tableware and art works in silver. Extensive research sheds new light on the life and art of William Spratling, Margot van Voorhies, Fred Davis, and Hubert Harmon, and artisans who worked for them, making this book the definitive study of Mexican silver jewelry and decorative objects. Some creasing and sporadic and tiny closed tears along edges of dust-jacket. DJ in overall good-, binding in good+, interior in very good condition. g+. Item #37440
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