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A bird worked into silverplate carries this pitcher, the Los Castillo workshop's favored motif lifting a serving vessel into figural sculpture. Form and subject are inseparable here, the bird shaping the silhouette rather than merely decorating it.
The taller returned to birds repeatedly across its catalogue, part of the Mexican fauna that ran through its design language. Los Castillo grew from its 1939 founding into one of Taxco's talleres grandes, large enough to produce holloware at this level (Stromberg, p. 41).
With more recorded appearances than many of its figural siblings, the silverplate bird pitcher is among the more attainable examples of the workshop's animal holloware, and remains a clear introduction to the form.
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