Mixed-Metal Tray and Dish Set

Mixed metals carry this object, the joining of contrasting metals serving as the design itself. Los Castillo's married-metal work united copper, brass, and silver in a single surface, recorded by Morrill among the firm's characteristic output (Morrill, p. 98).

With copper as the primary metal, the object reads through the seams and color shifts between metals rather than through figure or stone. Los Castillo, founded in Taxco by Antonio Castillo in 1939, took the position that it would never repeat a design, always improving the work (Morrill, p. 91).

A mixed-metal object of this kind appears from time to time, and it is a straightforward example of the technique that set the workshop apart.