Fish pin

A fish rendered in enamel on sterling sits within the range of natural-world motifs that recur throughout the Margot de Taxco design vocabulary. Morrill documents the studio's wide source base — Japanese art, Pre-Columbian forms, and the energetic lines of Art Deco — and notes that Margot developed a trained eye for subjects adaptable to either silver or enamel (Mexican Silver, 1994, p. 168). A brooch at pin scale offers a direct expression of that sensibility: a single motif, complete in itself.

The material pairing of sterling and enamel places this piece within Margot's central design line — the enamel-on-silver work that, as Morrill records, she refined into a sustained program of jewelry after an earlier period at the Los Castillo workshop, with her champlevé necklaces, bracelets, and earrings defining the series (Mexican Silver, 1994, p. 166). Smaller pins extended that vocabulary.