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A frog rendered with onyx on a silverplate plate, this piece joins Los Castillo's stonework to the animal subjects the firm drew from the natural world (Morrill, p. 92).
The dark onyx marks the frog against the silverplate, the stone supplying color where the metal carries the form. Antonio Castillo opened the Taxco workshop in 1939, and the firm built its name on refining its designs rather than repeating them (Morrill, p. 91).
A frog plate set with onyx comes up from time to time, and it reflects the workshop's pairing of a figural animal with set stone.
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