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A parrot worked in sterling gives this pitcher its subject, the tropical bird shaped into figural holloware in the Los Castillo manner. The parrot, with its strong silhouette, is well suited to the workshop's habit of letting the animal define the vessel.
The parrot is among the birds the taller returned to across its catalogue. Los Castillo grew from its 1939 founding into one of Taxco's talleres grandes, with the scale to produce sterling holloware of this ambition (Stromberg, p. 41).
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