Design 5226 pin

Few Taxco-school makers catalogued their own output as systematically as the workshop behind this pin. The numbered design system—sustained across some four decades of production—means design 5226 is not simply an enamel-on-sterling brooch but a fixed point in a traceable creative sequence. That discipline is itself part of what Morrill was reaching for in calling the enamel jewelry "glittering displays of color, texture, and technical perfection" (Morrill 1994, p. 166): the quality implied by the numbering was real, held to across the workshop's entire run.

The enamel-on-silver work that defines this line had its roots in the Castillo workshops of the early 1940s, where Margot de Taxco first developed techniques she later carried into her own taller and, as Morrill records, raised to a higher level of finish (Morrill 1994, p. 166). The pin form suits the intimacy that fine enamel demands—small enough to be examined at close range, worn against the body where color reads in shifting light. Design 5226 offers a documented, authenticated point of entry into this body of work.