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A mixed-metal cocktail pitcher carries the Los Castillo married-metal technique into mid-century entertaining, the contrasting metals supplying the decoration on a vessel built for the bar. The marriage of metals is the design, color drawn from the materials themselves.
Morrill records the taller producing married-metal holloware in copper, brass and silver through the postwar years, c.1945-55 (Morrill, p. 98). A cocktail pitcher places that idiom on the entertaining table.
Los Castillo, founded in Taxco in 1939, was one of the talleres grandes whose scale supported this production (Stromberg, p. 41).
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