Sun Pin

The sun was a recurring figure in the Taller Borda's design vocabulary, and this pin is one of Aguilar's most recognizable works. Penny C. Morrill's 1996 catalogue of Héctor Aguilar's work documents at least two distinct sun-themed pins in the workshop's output — a "Tongues of the Sun" design from around 1950, and an earlier malachite-and-silver sun variant from roughly 1945 — establishing the motif as a sustained element of the studio's formal language rather than an isolated experiment. This sterling silver pin belongs to that same lineage, executed entirely in metal without stone addition.

Sterling examples without stone additions — the solar form standing on the silverwork alone — represent the design in its most direct expression. For those building a survey of Aguilar's naturalistic and celestial motifs, this pin connects to documented models in the published scholarship on the workshop.