Mosaic box

A mosaic-enamel box from the Margot de Taxco workshop represents a less commonly seen dimension of her practice: the application of her enamel craft to a domestic silver form rather than to the wearable jewelry for which she is primarily known. The mosaic surface treatment, enamel composed in a patterned, tessellated arrangement, places this example in a corner of her output.

Margot's enamel-on-silver line took shape after 1955, built on technical foundations developed during her earlier years at the Los Castillo workshop, where, as Morrill documents, silver enameling was first established and then perfected by Margot in her own taller on the Taxco zócalo. The mosaic format is consistent with the visual sources she drew on throughout her career: the geometric intensity of Pre-Columbian surface pattern and the structured decorative sensibility of Japanese art, a vocabulary she pursued closely enough to travel to Japan twice in the late 1950s and to produce a manuscript on what she had seen.