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Mother of pearl and shell imagery make a natural pairing in decorative silver, the iridescent nacre evoking exactly what it depicts. As a silver-plate object from Los Castillo, this plate occupies the accessible end of the workshop's wide production range, carrying the family's inlay discipline into everyday decorative ware without the premium of sterling.
Los Castillo employed over three hundred fifty artisans at its height (Morrill, 1996) and produced with a scope that stretched from table pieces like this one to major institutional commissions. The inlay work here, setting cut nacre into prepared fields in the silver-plate ground, belongs to a broader Castillo practice that encompassed stone, tortoise shell, and onyx as well, documented across the workshop's output in Morrill's 1996 survey.
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