fish silverplate agate pitcher

Fish swim through the design vocabulary of the Los Castillo workshop — Morrill & Berk record swirling silver fish motifs in mid-century Los Castillo jewelry — and this footed pitcher in silver plate and agate carries that same iconography into the domestic vessel form. Los Castillo, founded in 1939, built its reputation on precisely this kind of range: motifs developed for jewelry translated into hollow ware and decorative objects that extended the workshop's language beyond the personal adornment for which Taxco silver is best known.

The pitcher's footed stance gives it a ceremonial presence, and the agate brings warm, veined stone against the silver-plate body — a pairing that echoes the taller's documented practice of combining metal with glass and natural materials. Hollow ware carrying this combination of figural motif and stone decoration from Los Castillo is an uncommon example of the workshop's output beyond its jewelry lines.