Shot Cup on Rimmed Base

A silver shot cup raised on a rimmed base, this is hollowware reduced to clean essentials: the cup rises from a defined foot, the rim giving it stance and the plain walls left to show the quality of the hand-raising. There is no applied ornament; the form is the design.

The cup belongs to the First Design Period, 1931 to 1946, the years in which the Taxco workshop established its repertoire of hand-wrought bar and table silver alongside the jewelry. The restraint here is characteristic of how much of that early hollowware relied on proportion rather than decoration.

Small hand-wrought drinking vessels from the first decade survive in modest numbers and are collected as examples of the workshop's table production.