Hand-wrought sterling silver flatware service by master silversmith Antonio Pineda

An Antonio Pineda hand-wrought sterling silver flatware service for eight Mid-20th century, marked ''Antonio / Taxco (within a crown) / Mexico, est:$7,000/10,000

This hand-wrought sterling silver flatware service, offered at Moran’s March 8, 2011 Antiques Auction, is an unusual item by master silversmith Antonio Pineda.

Antonio Pineda was born in Taxco, Mexico to an old Taxquenian family in 1919. At the age of 14 he apprenticed with William Spratling. After eight years in Spratling's studio, and becoming a master silversmith in his own right, Pineda opened his own workshop. His international reputation was established when his work was exhibited alongside that of Georg Jensen and other renowned modernist silversmiths at the 1944 exhibition of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The high-end retailer Gump's purchased Pineda's entire body of work displayed at that seminal show, establishing a longstanding relationship with him. In 1953 he won the Presidential Prize at the first National Silver Fair and by 1956 his operation employed over 160 people. Pineda founded the Silver Museum in Taxco in 1988.

Antonio Pineda is best known for his modernist jewelry designs incorporating gemstones in unusual and creative settings. He rarely made utilitarian pieces such as hollowware and flatware.

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