Woman with Bowl Mosaic Brass Box

This signed Salvador Terán box is built around a stylized woman with bowl motif, set into a mottled glass mosaic lid over a brass body. The figure is reduced to curved lines and blocks of color, which gives the small box the feeling of a worked mosaic plaque rather than a conventional decorative lid.

The auction lot included two brass mosaic boxes, but this page isolates the signed Teran example. The record describes the Teran box as brass with a glass mosaic woman with bowl, signed on the underside Salvador, measuring 5.625 inches long by 4 inches deep by 1.75 inches high, with cracks noted at the figure's hair.

Its importance is in the disciplined translation of figural imagery into Teran's metal-and-mosaic language, a compact example of the Taxco habit of making useful objects carry a modern Mexican visual identity.