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Stone inlay defines this amethyst pin, the violet stone set into silver in the manner the Los Castillo workshop made its own. The taller's interest in combining metal with inlaid materials runs through its catalogue, and a brooch worked this way puts that practice at jewelry scale.
The workshop circle was known for setting stone into metal, an approach Morrill ties to the experimental milieu around Los Castillo and Salvador Teran (Morrill, p. 206). Amethyst, with its saturated color, suits the technique.
Founded in Taxco in 1939, Los Castillo became one of the talleres grandes whose production capacity supported this kind of material experiment (Stromberg, p. 41). Stone-set pins surface only occasionally and are valued for the color of the inlay.
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