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A mixed-metal cocktail pitcher carries the Los Castillo married-metal technique into mid-century entertaining, the contrasting metals supplying the decoration on a vessel built for the bar. The marriage of metals is the design, color drawn from the materials themselves.
Morrill records the taller producing married-metal holloware in copper, brass and silver through the postwar years, c.1945-55 (Morrill, p. 98). A cocktail pitcher places that idiom on the entertaining table.
Los Castillo, founded in Taxco in 1939, was one of the talleres grandes whose scale supported this production (Stromberg, p. 41).
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Mixed-Metal Cocktail Pitcher.” Catalog no. MoMS-001171. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/los-castillo-pitcher-mixed-metal-cocktail
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Los Castillo
Parrot-Handled Pitcher with Stone Mosaic
1939 or later
Silver-plated metal
