Handled Tin Pitcher with Copper Handle and Band Across

A handled tin pitcher with a copper handle and a copper band running across its lower body, this is a piece of utilitarian metalware from the workshop's tin tradition, the band of warm copper giving the plain tin form a single line of contrast. Tin work was part of Las Delicias from the start, where the tinsmith Don Isidro Jejia directed assistants in producing pitchers and other objects in tin to Spratling's simple designs (Morrill, p. 36).

The copper handle and band lift the piece above plain tinware, pairing the two humble metals for effect. With no recorded reference and common materials, the pitcher is valued for its workshop origin and its condition rather than for standing in the literature.