Description
Los Ballesteros is part of the wider Taxco silver tradition, the Mexican town that became one of the 20th century’s genuine centres of modernist silver design after William Spratling established his workshop there in the 1930s. This bracelet, in the storyteller style, narrative imagery worked directly into the silver’s surface, carries that lineage forward.
The storyteller form is distinct from the purely abstract modernist work elsewhere in this collection, drawing on Mexican folk narrative traditions rather than European abstraction.
Why Taxco’s story matters here. What happened in Taxco from the 1930s onward was the creation of an entire regional silver industry, dozens of workshops training under and then branching out from Spratling’s original studio.
What to look for. The narrative panels should show crisp, legible detail, and the piece should carry both the maker’s mark and Mexican silver content stamps. Both are present and clear here.
This piece is part of a small, genuinely personal collection of mid-century jewellery, gathered over years rather than acquired for resale.
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