Sterling Silver Sauceboat

This sterling silver sauceboat was designed and hand formed in 1982 while I was studying metalsmithing in graduate school. Created from a single continuous sheet of silver, the bowl sweeps upward to become its own handle, flowing over the spout and resolving into sculptural legs — a functional object reimagined as a seamless, fluid form.

Originally exhibited at Lever House in New York after receiving an honorable mention from the Sterling Silversmiths Guild of America, the piece was purchased by collector Raymond Drakoff. Nearly forty years later, after Drakoff’s passing, his family returned the sauceboat to me as his “last gift,” having kept it pristine along with decades of correspondence.

The work now stands not only as an exploration of form and craft, but as a rare object whose journey — from creation, to collection, to unexpected homecoming — has become inseparable from its meaning.