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A freestanding silverplate figure of the Virgin Mary translates a devotional image into the decorative-arts vocabulary of the Los Castillo workshop, the modeled form standing as a small sculpture in its own right. Religious subjects sit naturally within a Mexican silver tradition steeped in the imagery of the colonial church.
Los Castillo was established in 1939 when Antonio Castillo and his brothers left William Spratling's Las Delicias to start their own taller (Morrill, p. 166), one of the great large workshops of the Taxco School whose output ranged well beyond jewelry into figural and decorative objects.
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